Secure-It's Pod Safe keeps your iPod locked down
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 4th 2006 9:49AM
posted Aug 4th 2006 9:49AM
We don't know whether we should laugh or cry (or both) at the apparently booming market for keeping iPod-swipers at bay. Sure, some last-resort options for protecting your iPod while strolling are a bit comical, but the folks at Secure-It obviously think that guarding your iPod is a rather serious affair. Not to be confused with the oh-so-closely named PodSafe or the numerous alternative lock-down solutions out there, the Pod Safe attempts to be a "stylish" portable locking security case for your nano, video, or fourth-generation iPod. Composed from "high impact PolyCarbon strengthened ABS material" (i.e. can be easy demolished with a hammer -- along with the iPod it contains), the Safe sports a four-digit user-changeable passcode to keep thieves guessing. A steel cable loop is there to latch your precious media player to your desk, briefcase, bicycle, or possibly your wrist, should you so desire. This lock doesn't hinder any playback functionality of the iPod, so even stolen units would operate, but the fun wouldn't last long for thieves considering the sole charging port is under lock and keycode. We see this unit more as a theft deterrent system than an all-out personal security guard for your 'Pod, but if your neck of the woods is seeming a little sketch, you can apprehend a Pod Safe for $39.95.[Via Popgadget]
If there was a longer cable you could lock it to your neck.
>>>"the fun wouldn't last long for thieves considering the sole charging port is under lock and keycode"
Have you ever used these sort of locks before? Trying every combo on the lock only takes a couple hours, tops.. So assuming it did get stolen, then it's not useless since the thief can take it home and spend the time necessary to open it at his own leisure.
The thing that would be most useful would be the security cable to attach it to something else, and even that is questionable. I have a pair of cutters that I know could cut that piddly cable, no matter what it's made of. Admittedly, the cutters have 5 foot long handles, so I'm not in the habit of carrying them around with me, but as they are made to cut through master locks, I don't doubt their effectiveness against steel cable.
Basically, what I'm saying is that this thing looks like it would give you piece of mind, not any real security. At worst, it would encourage the would-be thief to damage the iPod by trying to open the thing there and then. Not good.
These no way I'm putting glue on my iPod for that thing.
I think most people are stealing them to destroy them, as all good-hearted people should do.
You guys realize that every lock/security system is just a *deterrant* right? Given enough time and/or tools, everything can be stolen or broken into. The trick is to make it just hard enough that the thief moves on to another target. Very few people are willing to carry around bolt cutters in public to snipe an iPod (or anything for that matter), so they will look for something easier to steal.
You don't sit behind your locked apartment/house door and honestly feel that nobody can break-in do you? No, you just hope that it's enough to make something think twice before breaking-in, and hopefully choose not to.
You don't need bolt cutters to get through that thing. Just a pair of hand-held wire clippers and 5 seconds.
Ditto @ Otto...
In fact the ones with 3 digit codes can be opened in less than 15 mins (of course depending on what the unlock code is, if its 000 it will take less than 1 sec lol)
LOL @ strider_mt2k...
You're gonna get a lot of iPod fanboys wailing now :-D
@strider_mt2k I 2nd that
yeah you gotta admit... breaking ipods are better then stealing them, especially when they think they're safe