By "shutting it off" you mean they inserted themselves in between the battery and device and instantly cut power at the right time. Not something that you can e

By "shutting it off" you mean they inserted themselves in between the battery and device and instantly cut power at the right time. Not something that you can easily do to an arbitrary device (especially if you have to give the device back). And I don't know for sure, but I feel like that one was fixed at some point. Edit: Yep, superuser2 links to the CVE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10423257, https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4451 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4451