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by maltfield 5y ago
Yes! That was just under 2 years ago. It's the same project. DIY is great. The problem is that after I published that article, everyone on Hacker News went and bought-out all the USB-A magnetic breakways on Amazon. And they literally n
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by maltfield 5y ago
We reference treadmills and jetskis in the explainer video to explain the concept of "Kill Cords" * https://youtu.be/S3LtLyuaBvI?t=26 I didn't know snowmobiles had this too! I guess it's my bias since it
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by maltfield 5y ago
Hi pjerem, Michael Altfield here (founder of the BusKill project). The problem is that there are no USB-A magnetic breakaways available on Amazon. If there were, then I wouldn't have launched this campaign! * https://buskill
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by maltfield 5y ago
Hi, I'm Michael Altfield (Founder of the BusKill project). I'll take that bet because I'm pretty sure <99% of people will ever enable the self-destruct triggers :) BusKill does not ship with destructive triggers. The curre
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by maltfield 5y ago
Yes :) BusKill is an open-source project. AltShift is my company.
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by maltfield 5y ago
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-k... The above article
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by maltfield 5y ago
If all you want is a BT dongle, then there's tons of "solutions" on the market for this. See our "comparison" table on CrowdSupply for some options: * https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buski
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by maltfield 5y ago
Our target demographic is mostly journalists. Keep an eye on the number of journalists who are murdered in oppressive regimes. It's very sad :'( * https://rsf.org/en/ranking
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by maltfield 5y ago
usbkill is a bit backwards from BusKill. usbkill triggers when a device is inserted. BusKill triggers when a device is removed. It's an important difference. I actually didn't start BusKill to sell devices. It was originally a DIY
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by maltfield 5y ago
In such a scenario, you're right that if the attacker will use physical violence against you, of course the device wouldn't save you from bodily harm. But what about your sources? In this situation (if you actually can't reme
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by maltfield 5y ago
This is exactly what we do with the "LUKS Header Shredder" script in BusKill. First we lock the screen. Then we use the built-in `luksErase` command to destroy the data in the key slots, then we overwrite the whole header area. Th
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by maltfield 5y ago
Hi, Michael Altfield here (founder of the BusKill project). As described on the crowdsupply page, the cross-platform GUI app (as opposed to the udev rule for which BusKill was originally designed) currently only has the "lock screen&qu
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by maltfield 5y ago
Hi. I made the website. What exactly don't you trust? Everything is open-source, including the designs to build a BusKill cable yourself. * https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/hardware_dev/
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by maltfield 5y ago
Currently the BusKill app just locks the screen when the cable disconnects. I've never had Windows block the screen lock with such an error. The way we implemented the self-destruct (currently only available in Linux), it locks the scr
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by maltfield 5y ago
BusKill does not ship with destructive triggers. The current app is limited to locking your screen. Future releases will include soft/hard shutdown. We do have a "LUKS Header Shredder" trigger (which we call self-destruct as
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Kill cord protects data on devices seized by government (Linux, Windows, macOS)(cnx-software.com)
3 points by maltfield 5y ago|1 comments
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BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop (now available)(buskill.in)
3 points by maltfield 5y ago|1 comments
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Continuous Documentation: Hosting Read the Docs on GitHub Pages (CI/CD)(tech.michaelaltfield.net)
1 points by maltfield 6y ago|0 comments
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by maltfield 6y ago
Lots of people are reporting this outage on this Google Support Thread: * https://support.google.com/mail/thread/44318228?hl=en
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by maltfield 6y ago
Also confirming an issue for the past few hours. It's currently 2020-05-04 11:26 UTC and the issue is ongoing. EDIT: does anyone know if google has an "uptime" page for their various services where they can provide status upd
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New website extrapolates COIVD-19 data to predict future spread of coronavirus(coviz.org)
1 points by maltfield 6y ago|0 comments
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BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop(tech.michaelaltfield.net)
331 points by maltfield 7y ago|261 comments
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Guide for fixing GPG keyring after importing a poisoned certificate(tech.michaelaltfield.net)
2 points by maltfield 7y ago|0 comments