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Laptops with Stickers

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601 points z303 | 2 comments | 02 Nov 25 11:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.459s | source
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andy99 ◴[11 Nov 25 23:56 UTC] No.45894554[source]▶
I’ve seen it fairly commonly for people to have company stickers on their laptop and have worked places that distribute these stickers. I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop.

Self expression is fine, I personally want the most boring looking computer possible

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1. Terr_ ◴[12 Nov 25 00:03 UTC] No.45894616[source]▶
> I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole your laptop.

One day the company was giving employees some swag, little retractable lanyard-things, branded with the company name and logo, for each of our anonymous white RFID keycards.

I, uh, escalated my concerns that this meant anyone who stole/found a keycard would also know where they could go use it. For whatever reason, that particular swag stopped being available.

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2. neilv ◴[12 Nov 25 00:42 UTC] No.45894977[source]▶
Good catch. Like the reason that house key ring lost&found tags have an intermediary's address on them, rather than identify the other directly.