This USB Killer will instantly kill your computer

[Kevin Lancaster]

This USB Killer will instantly kill your computer

DIY YouTuber Thomas Kim has shown how a USB stick can be used to kill a computer.

 

[Kloofvreter]

Oh wow. What a revolutionary discovery. Not.

 

[Thor]

Will the hard-drive survive?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

$49 ?!?

Cheaper to just cut open a kettle chord and jam it into a USB port

 

[Fulcrum29]

$49 ?!?

Cheaper to just cut open a kettle chord and jam it into a USB port

There are other ways using existing peripherals which is externally powered, much easier.

 

[Toxic T]

But why

 

[Ho3n3r]

Next: a video about how you can kill yourself by jumping off a 200m high bridge into concrete.

 

[xumwun]

Will the hard-drive survive?

Very unlikely that it would damage the hard-drive

 

[BradleyKZN]

Next: a video about how you can kill yourself by jumping off a 200m high bridge into concrete.

:crylaugh::crylaugh::crylaugh:

 

[Thor]

Very unlikely that it would damage the hard-drive

Then it's useless

 

[The_Librarian]

Then it's useless

nope, not if you can get the Bossly Unit to insert it into your laptop...

 

[Petec]

Using a physical overload on a system, through an exposed port.... How revolutionary...

This is like saying, "Here, give me your car keys, so I can unlock, move and then push your car off the edge of a cliff, just so I can prove how vulnerable your car is to falling off a cliff."

And this fewl is getting airtime? No wonder the Aliens will never visit us!

 

[Thor]

Using a physical overload on a system, through an exposed port.... How revolutionary...

This is like saying, "Here, give me your car keys, so I can unlock, move and then push your car off the edge of a cliff, just so I can prove how vulnerable your car is to falling off a cliff."

And this fewl is getting airtime? No wonder the Aliens will never visit us!

If it destroyed the data on the harddrive then it would be useful.

No data = No evidence

 

[The_Librarian]

If it destroyed the data on the harddrive then it would be useful.

No data = No evidence

You have something to hide then.

Go on, what is it?

 

[Ninja'd]

$49 ?!?

Cheaper to just cut open a kettle chord and jam it into a USB port

Just give me the PC after losing a few rounds in Street Fighter.

 

[ToxicBunny]

If it destroyed the data on the harddrive then it would be useful.

No data = No evidence

Not quite as simple as that unfortunately...

The most you could hope for from this device is destruction of the controller board of the hard drive (if that even happens). Can just slot a new controller board in and the drive should spin up and be all hunky dory.

 

[marioat1]

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[longboy]

If it destroyed the data on the harddrive then it would be useful.

No data = No evidence

You can never really "destroy" data on a magnetic disk. Sure, you can make it harder to recover though.

 

[ToxicBunny]

You can never really "destroy" data on a magnetic disk. Sure, you can make it harder to recover though.

Oh you can destroy it.. quite easily actually...

But something like this USB Killer has no hope of doing that.

 

[Thor]

Oh you can destroy it.. quite easily actually...

But something like this USB Killer has no hope of doing that.

Hammer I suppose?