How safe is the Kensington Lock?

[goobimama]

Question of the day is, how safe are these kensington (or other branded) locks that one gets to secure a laptop and such?

I'm doing up a room so I can put an iMac in there. Mom wants to secure the room with grills (ugly grills) but I want it open. Now this is not Mumbai where there is a constant threat of thieves. I'm in Goa and in my village there hasn't been any robbery since I can remember.

So how safe is this lock? Can a thief say, cut the wire with some ordinary tools? Most of these thieves are migrant labourers so they wont be having any advanced knowledge....

Please help cause I hate the fact that I've to put grills in there....

[mariner]

well the company brags about security but i just saw a video where a guy demonstrates how to open kensington locks with toilet paper roll,pen and knife.

want to post link but dunno if mods will allow it.

[khansdream]

Toilet Paper..........???????

Pen.....................???????????

Knife...................???????????????????

Impossible.