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Merge into Social engineering (security)?

It is possible this content would be more appropriate if included within the social engineering page. I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I created a separate article. --Starschreck 04:56, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I vote NAY to the merge proposal. Because Physical Information Security is about the safeguarding of the actual medium that the information is stored on (paper or data), but Social engineering (security) is about the coercion of information from humans. I am surprised that this article does not mention more about security of live information in the physical sense. i.e. server rooms, server cabinets, safes, distribution of physical keys, breach protocols, etc. --Emana 09:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No discussion of hacker dongles, USB fobs, etc? =

I would think these devices (dongles, USB fobs, etc.) would be an important topic to discuss within the aspect of physical security. If a rack of servers is in a less-than-secure location, anyone can fairly easily install something, very quickly, that could compromise the entire system. Rlaird (talk) 15:42, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]