BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
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BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
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Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#2This is shockingly expensive and comically impractical to use.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#3Interesting. The site implicitly references the arrest of the Silk Road founder, using the alternative acronym "Department of Parks and Recreation". He was arrested by having his laptop literally yanked from under his fingertips in a public library.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#4Interesting. The site implicitly references the arrest of the Silk Road founder, using the alternative acronym "Department of Parks and Recreation". He was arrested by having his laptop literally yanked from under his fingertips in a public library.
Having a USB kill switch in this case could (would?) have escalated the arrest method to something more violent.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#5This is shockingly expensive and comically impractical to use.
$89 doesn't seem that expensive.
It's just as impractical as money belts, key chain alarms, Tiles(tm)
I mean, too impractical for me, but there is definitely a market for it.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#6The idea is interesting, but the current form factor seems to be cumbersome. The cord can be easily disconnected by mistake.
It would be nice to have a BT dongle that could react to the distance to the owner and to being unplugged.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#7For the Yubikey owners out there, a while back I wrote a blog post on how to achieve a similar setup using a Yubikey [1]. All it requires is a lanyard to attach the yubikey to.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#8This is shockingly expensive and comically impractical to use.
I can grant expensive (though I don't know for how cheap I could make such a sellable project with free worldwide shipping, while also making profit), but what is comically impractical about this? It's not like the default functionality is to nuke the device from the orbit on disconnect.
You could make one for yourself cheaper, though, if you have the know-how.
Though a basic face detection-based screen lock could be quite more useful and cheaper, at the cost of increased battery consumption.
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#9Interesting. The site implicitly references the arrest of the Silk Road founder, using the alternative acronym "Department of Parks and Recreation". He was arrested by having his laptop literally yanked from under his fingertips in a public library.
Having a USB kill switch in this case could (would?) have escalated the arrest method to something more violent.
How would a more violent arrest have solved anything?
Re: BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops
#10Interesting. The site implicitly references the arrest of the Silk Road founder, using the alternative acronym "Department of Parks and Recreation". He was arrested by having his laptop literally yanked from under his fingertips in a public library.
Having a USB kill switch in this case could (would?) have escalated the arrest method to something more violent.
It's probably better to be beat up or tortured by a state actor than to rot in prison for the rest of your life if they get hands on proof of your culpability.
Besides the USA is not Al Qaida, there is a chance they would respect the Geneva convention: https://ccrjustice.org/home/get-involved/tools-resources/fac...