USB Killer 2.0 - Hackdot

Re:USB Killer 2.0 by DanBC on Monday September 12, 2016 @06:20AM (#12478457)

> Imagine one attacker distracting the victim in a café and the other attacker quickly inserting the Kill stick. Sort of a hardware Denial of Service.

You're in a coffee shop. Wouldn't the attackers just "accidentally" spill coffee on your laptop? Some laptops cope well with water from the top (over the keyboard) but not in the air vents.

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Re:USB Killer 2.0 by type0 on Monday September 12, 2016 @07:01AM (#12478654)

> Wouldn't the attackers just "accidentally" spill coffee on your laptop?

The difference is deniability, you can always see that someone killed your laptop with coffee or smashed it with a hammer, with this you wouldn't know until you can examine the circuits.

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Re:USB Killer 2.0 by iplaw on Monday September 12, 2016 @09:24AM (#12479428)

And even then, power surges do happen. Circuitry get fried from time to time. There is still a level of plausible deniability.

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