BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by maltfield » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 1:58 PM UTC

BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
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Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by vgaldikas » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

SilkRoad guy would of loved this :D

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by nkrisc » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

vgaldikas wrote: post #2

SilkRoad guy would of loved this :D

Ross Ulbricht, who was apprehended at a public library while logged in to various accounts. As I recall a plain clothes agent distracted him while others then tackled him.

("would've", not "would of")

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by Reventlov » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

Archive link because the website is down: http://web.archive.org/web/20200102140351/https://tech.micha...

I was expecting a "kill switch" destroying the computer, but that's just a thing that switch off your laptop when unplugged. I guess you could also do this with bluetooth, for example.

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by thechao » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #3

vgaldikas wrote: post #2

SilkRoad guy would of loved this :D

Ross Ulbricht, who was apprehended at a public library while logged in to various accounts. As I recall a plain clothes agent distracted him while others then tackled him. ("would've", not "would of")

Other English speakers I know complain about our orthography: bought, caught, draught, etc. But, yet, here we are with a “word” pronounced “of” and spelled “‘ve”! Now that’s awful orthography!

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by jkrltifk » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

vgaldikas wrote: post #2

SilkRoad guy would of loved this :D

Once he was identified he was gone anyway.

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by sysbin » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

Maybe a smartwatch reading the heart rate of the owner and noticing stimulation could trigger the same functionality as well.

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by brianbreslin » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

Can someone explain to me in laymen's terms what this does? It renders the motherboard inoperable? Kills the display? How do you recover from this if you ACCIDENTALLY unplug it?

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by bart_spoon » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:34 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #3

vgaldikas wrote: post #2

SilkRoad guy would of loved this :D

Ross Ulbricht, who was apprehended at a public library while logged in to various accounts. As I recall a plain clothes agent distracted him while others then tackled him. ("would've", not "would of")

According to the book "American Kingpin", they had worked their way into the administration staff for the Silk Road, and used the site admin IM chat to ensure that he was using his laptop and actually signed into his account before rushing him in the library.

Re: BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop

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Post by iherbig » Thu, Jan 02, 2020, 2:38 PM UTC

thechao wrote: post #5

nkrisc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ross Ulbricht, who was apprehended at a public library while logged in to various accounts. As I recall a plain clothes agent distracted him while others then tackled him. ("would've", not "would of")

Other English speakers I know complain about our orthography: bought, caught, draught, etc. But, yet, here we are with a “word” pronounced “of” and spelled “‘ve”! Now that’s awful orthography!

In case you're serious and unaware: it's a contraction of "would have," hence the apostrophe. It's not a single word spelled weirdly.