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I would rather go to sites with good security measures and to lock any valuables in the car than to fiddle about with them to be honest!

DK

I've been using one of the dog tethers(as in viggo's photo) to secure stuff for a few years..especially at festivals(and some campsites!).

I welded up the join in the top loop on ours',as that is more substantial than the lower eye(..I also cut 6" or so out of the straight section while I was at it, to make it more compact)...and I just loop the cable lock through in such a way that there is very little slack and the only way to "unscrew" it,would be to walk around in circles,carrying everything that locked up,with you..

I suppose two,set a distance apart would be better..but at the end of it all,it's only really to stop folk from just snatching stuff away(...chairs,stove etc)

(..I don't think I'd  be leaving a laptop in a tent/awning in the first place though..)

I suppose you could always incorporate a cable lock which has an inbuilt alarm?..but that would be a pain,if you kept setting it off when your coming in late from the pub!  

One thing I would add...and that is that on some occasions I have been unable to screw the tether into some pitches/fields..Instead of screwing itself in,all it did was drag out a core of stoney earth!

In these cases,a couple of decent steel spikes(3/8-1/2" dia)each with an eye welded on,just driven in at angles,would have been the answer..

Worth considering as a 2nd option..