I attached the Mac mini with steel bands inside the glue-sealed box - you can find it in a hardware store, bend it and screw it in. Most important with closed boxes is aeration holes in the rear to avoid overheating.
It would take a long time for a potential robber to steal anything and nobody would take such risk in a public place to my opinion.



On 12 September 2017 at 20:48:33, Jean-Marie Adrien (jm.adrien.mnt@gmail.com) wrote:

thanks for contributions !
course there is no keyboard nor mouse, just a mini mac headless in a box.
point is that i have to guarantee somehow that no geek can twist things easily physically on the mac, 
even if the guy has a screwdriver, for instance to steal images via GEM or whatever
being no hacker myself :)
(you know, society is getting more and more paranoid…)
hmm


Le 12 sept. 2017 à 14:31, Markus Brandt <2brandt63@gmail.com> a écrit :

hi

if you could start your patch with pd -nogui flag, patches would no be visible, so afaik not to be editable
 anymore.

cheers
markus

2017-09-12 14:25 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marie Adrien <jm.adrien.mnt@gmail.com>:
Hello
I will make an installation in a public space soon where the machine (mac) will be somehow accessible :
for responsibility and privacy reasons, i’d like to make it impossible to manipulate the patches
(first time i encounter this issue in my long usage of pd…)
Is there a way to lock everything ? compile or whatever ?
i mean once a patch is running, the mac is basically accessible, no ?
(session opened, mouse and keyboard operable, not talking about ethernet)
What i have been doing until now is run patches in public spaces tor theaters just as at home and that was fine, but won’t be ok this time
Thanks
JM





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