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Hi martin_a, I'm Michael Altfield. I started the BusKill project in January 2020 with the following article on my blog: * https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020

Hi martin_a, I'm Michael Altfield. I started the BusKill project in January 2020 with the following article on my blog: * https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-kill-cord-dead-man-switch/ https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2020/01/02/buskill-laptop-k... The above article front-paged on Hacker News, and I got a lot of people asking me how they could buy one and use it in on Windows and MacOS. Over the past year, many people have contributed in porting it to those platforms (I originally just designed it for myself, and I use Linux). The BusKill project is not owned by me. All our work is open-source, and it's owned by the community. As such, I don't put just my name on it because it's not just my work. But if you dig around, you do see my name pop-up in a few places. The list of contributors can be found on our documentation's "Attribution" section. * https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/attribution.html https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/attribution.ht... The main website is mostly just a landing page, blog, and a store so people can buy with cryptocurrencies and Tor since CrowdSupply doesn't run an Onion Service and doesn't accept crypto payments. Not everyone who has contributed to the BusKill project is still active, but some of us are. You can find our names & photos at the bottom of the Crowd Supply campaign page: * https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buskill https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buskill Contact information is provided on the website. There's a link to it in the Footer* and on the GitHub page. Not sure how I can make that more clear: * https://www.buskill.in/contact/ https://www.buskill.in/contact/

Symbiote 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the German rules, but GDPR Art. 14 §1 says: > Where personal data relating to a data subject are collected from the data subject, the controller shall, at the time when personal data are obtained, provide the data subject with all of the following information: > (a) the identity and the contact details of the controller and, where applicable, of the controller’s representative; Usually, these contact details are in the privacy policy. It's certainly unusual for a website to omit this, and in most cases I wouldn't buy from a site where it's missing. In this particular case, maybe it's less strange. However, I still wouldn't order without knowing from where the package will be sent. Something from Estonia arrives here without any import taxes, something from outside the EU can do (the CrowdSupply site says they handle VAT), but can also attract high processing fees. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/ (Note I'm not interested in buying a BusKill; I'm just procrastinating.)
- maltfield 5y ago
  All orders are handled by CrowdSupply (via Mouser). They handle shipping, VAT, import taxes, etc. It certainly added cost to the final product, but I figured it was more fair & transparent to everyone to set shipping to $0 internationally (I hate it when you finally make it to payment and only then learn shipping is $20 :/).

Symbiote 5y ago

I'm not familiar with the German rules, but GDPR Art. 14 §1 says: > Where personal data relating to a data subject are collected from the data subject, the controller shall, at the time when personal data are obtained, provide the data subject with all of the following information: > (a) the identity and the contact details of the controller and, where applicable, of the controller’s representative; Usually, these contact details are in the privacy policy. It's certainly unusual for a website to omit this, and in most cases I wouldn't buy from a site where it's missing. In this particular case, maybe it's less strange. However, I still wouldn't order without knowing from where the package will be sent. Something from Estonia arrives here without any import taxes, something from outside the EU can do (the CrowdSupply site says they handle VAT), but can also attract high processing fees. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-13-gdpr/ (Note I'm not interested in buying a BusKill; I'm just procrastinating.)

maltfield 5y ago
All orders are handled by CrowdSupply (via Mouser). They handle shipping, VAT, import taxes, etc. It certainly added cost to the final product, but I figured it was more fair & transparent to everyone to set shipping to $0 internationally (I hate it when you finally make it to payment and only then learn shipping is $20 :/).