A little over two years ago the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in upstate New York fell victim to a crime spree. The school owns more than 200 video projectors installed on ceiling mounts in classrooms and lecture halls throughout the campus. Over the course of a 6-month period, thieves stole 10 of the projectors. The total value of the school's loss exceeded $50,000. To detach their booty, the thieves had simply used common hand tools to remove the bolts attaching the projectors to their ceiling mounts.
In response, Bob Bancroft, RIT's senior engineer for display systems technology, contacted Richard Campbell, president of Bryce Fastener (Gilbert, AZ), which manufacture's the Keyed-lok fastener. The tamper-proof socket screw features a different, randomly selected socket geometry for every purchaser.