<story><title>BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops</title><url>https://www.buskill.in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it make sense to remove the battery on your laptop entirely? With a modified magsafe-like power cord any attempt to grab the machine hard-kills the system and RAM begins degrading immediately. Epoxy over the screw terminals would also delay an attacker long enough to prevent freezing the RAM with compressed air to try and dump RAM via an exploit kit.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>Good to have if you run a dark net marketplace or a political disident ring from public libraries.&lt;p&gt;An additional refinement is to autolock the device if a certain personal key combo (ex. Shit - vol up - vol down) is not pressed every few minutes in response to an audible click. If not unlocked in a minute or so with a complex password, the device halts to a disk encrypted state and unpowered ram, minimizing the window attackers have to recover RAM state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pmorici</author><text>Devices to transfer from wall power to battery backup for transport have existed for a long time.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiebetech.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;hotplug-field-kit&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiebetech.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;hotplug-field-kit&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops</title><url>https://www.buskill.in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zionic</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t it make sense to remove the battery on your laptop entirely? With a modified magsafe-like power cord any attempt to grab the machine hard-kills the system and RAM begins degrading immediately. Epoxy over the screw terminals would also delay an attacker long enough to prevent freezing the RAM with compressed air to try and dump RAM via an exploit kit.</text></item><item><author>yholio</author><text>Good to have if you run a dark net marketplace or a political disident ring from public libraries.&lt;p&gt;An additional refinement is to autolock the device if a certain personal key combo (ex. Shit - vol up - vol down) is not pressed every few minutes in response to an audible click. If not unlocked in a minute or so with a complex password, the device halts to a disk encrypted state and unpowered ram, minimizing the window attackers have to recover RAM state.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;Epoxy over the screw terminals would also delay an attacker...&lt;p&gt;Might as well go all in and epoxy the ram sticks&amp;#x2F;dimm slot assembly.</text></comment>