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USB Killer: A device that can destroy a PC in seconds
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| Published Sep 12, 2016, 12:02 pm IST
Posted on 09/12/2016 8:41:16 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
Hmm. The biggest order came from an address in Chappaqua.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:43:40 PM PDT
by
Rastus
(#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
To: Swordmaker
Hitlery would have loved this.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:44:03 PM PDT
by
grumpygresh
(We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
To: Swordmaker
Not to be confused with Phone Kill 1.0 - authorized by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:45:12 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
To: dayglored; ThunderSleeps; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; ...
A Hong Kong company makes a USB testing device that repeatedly increases the USB port by pushing higher and higher surges of voltage into the port until the device it is connected to is fried completely. The maker of that device has reported that the ONLY computers that are built to survive this destructive testing are made by Apple. PING!
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:46:24 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Rastus
Hmm. The biggest order came from an address in Chappaqua. Now that is Hillary-ous.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:47:05 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
‘A device that can destroy a PC in seconds’
Sounds like they may have a marketing problem.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:49:40 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Swordmaker
I just found out that Intel is investing a great deal of time and $$$ addressing USB security.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:52:33 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: Swordmaker
This is basically a computer terrorist device. Clearly not marked in anyway. It should have skull and crossbones on it with a written warning. So I don’t buy the claim that it is intended for good purposes.
The modifications to the Mother board design to stop this attack are really very simple and cheap. I hope the manufacturers get on the ball.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:52:59 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: grumpygresh
Hitlery would have loved this. I came across an evil device on the Internet, right up her alley to use against foes. Terrorists have engineered USB sticks that contain C4 explosive, set to detonate when a user plugs it in to a power source like on a PC laptop. It's a bad world out there, folks. Even an Apple won't survive that. The device mentioned by the article above likely won't harm an Apple computer.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:55:06 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: All
Interesting. I have a link cable to plug my iphone into my laptop. The cable has a dead short in it and when I plug it in I get a popup from Windows 10 that it has disabled the port due to a power surge.
I unplug and restart and the USB port is good again.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:57:27 PM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: tumblindice
Not really. They can create a protection device which they would sell gladly. This can start a steady revenue stream, perhaps a birth of new industry as we have seen in computer security software.
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posted on
09/12/2016 8:57:55 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater)
To: Swordmaker
Lightning destroyed my laptop last week, surge protector and all.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I don’t understand stuff like this.
I figure I can destroy my computer myself.
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:01:59 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Revel
So I dont buy the claim that it is intended for good purposes. Any serious testing of USB ports' handling of high voltages would be done with externally powered devices capable of different voltages and pulse durations. Being powered by the USB port itself shows that it is meant for causing trouble.
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:05:09 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(If Muammar Gaddafi had donated to the Clinton Foundation he would still be alive and in power today.)
To: Swordmaker
There is no such thing as “stored voltage.” That’s just the reporter talking. Like most laymen, the “volt” is the only electrical unit he knows the name of.
To: ozzymandus
I had some second-hand LCD monitor. It looked fine at first until I found that, every time my little fridge starts, it goes black and comes back. I figure that, when a fridge powers up, it must mess up power supply inside the monitor.
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:14:54 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater)
To: KarlInOhio
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:17:23 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: TigerLikesRooster
I had an electrician tell me not to plug a fridge, even a mini-fridge, into a GFCI recepticle.
The compressor kicking on and off can trip it.
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:20:53 PM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Arthur McGowan
“There is no such thing as stored voltage.”
Not sure what you mean. Voltage is the difference in potential that can cause current flow. Batteries and Capacitors store it. Also called a “Charge”.
I would say that this device would have to be a simple switching power supply storing a charge to a capacitor and then releasing it back through the 5V source.
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posted on
09/12/2016 9:22:48 PM PDT
by
Revel
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