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Interesting indeed! Here [1] is how it allegedly works. Is the laptop easy enough to open and check if the board you have looks anything like those photos? On
by kardos 7y ago
Interesting indeed! Here [1] is how it allegedly works. Is the laptop easy enough to open and check if the board you have looks anything like those photos?
On the other hand, putting a signal onto disable pins is not exactly a kill switch. The description sounds like a hardware switch in front of a soft kill, which would make it some sort of quasi-HKS. A real kill switch would need to totally cut power to that controller rather than rely on it playing nice.
On the gripping hand, I find it hard to believe they would overlook something that crucial. Eg, if it didn't work, it would /have/ to show up during testing.
I wonder if the chip needs to be tightly integrated into the board and a proper HKS would require cutting signal to dozens of those pins -- something that is perhaps impractical -- so they went for a lesser option.
FWIW, there is at least one more person alleging the same broken functionality [2]
[1] https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/ https://puri.sm/posts/hard-not-soft-kill-switches/
[2] https://forums.puri.sm/t/wifi-killswitch-didnt-work-when-i-needed-it-to/4140 https://forums.puri.sm/t/wifi-killswitch-didnt-work-when-i-n...