> During the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, an individual associated with Gizmodo brought a TV-B-Gone remote control and shut off many display monitors at booths and during demos affecting several companies. These actions caused the individual to be banned for life from future CES events.
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transmit(offcode)Exactly. That device has nothing to do with police or testing. The politically correct name is a way to avoid filters or to claim ignorance in case some customers do nasty thing with them. Not different from cellphone/gps jammers sold under the "signal/field generator" name.
"Even if it was their own device that they were retiring, it doesn't even wipe data, it just destroys the logic/motherboard."
And it's even very bad at it: most computers have internal usb hubs that would act as a (weak but sometimes successful) defense against these devices.
Likewise, the USBKill suppliers had shown confirmed clients from all large SV companies, and all major hardware manufacturers.
It definitely is a malicious device in the hands of someone malicious, no doubt... But it most definitely serves a purpose to government and LEA apparently ..
Hardware designers might want one to test out their mitigation circuit but once your design, why do you need a USBkill anymore?
This thing just seems like a destructive version of those annoyance toys like a TV-B-Gone.