I make and sell BusKill laptop kill cords. Monero is accepted.
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513·8 months agoYou associate everything that can be bought with cryptocurrency as a scam? It sounds like you haven’t even read the post. I spent a lot of time making it easily accessible here on Lemmy. You don’t even have to click the link. Just scroll-up and read :)
How exactly did you come to the conclusion that this is a scam? We’re a fully open-source hardware & software project that’s been around for a few years. If you don’t want to buy from us, we go out of our way to help users build their own 3D-printed BusKill cables (currently in prototype stage).
Our software is free as in speech and free as in beer under the CC BY-SA and GNU GPL licenses.
3·9 months agoYes, BusKill works with any USB drive.
In fact, the BusKill cable is just a USB Drive. The only thing “fancy” that it has is a magnetic coupler in the middle of the 1-meter cable so that it will breakaway at any angle. But, if you’d like, you can build your own. The instructions are here:
21·10 months agoIt’s run by the folks at dys2p.
Besides running ProxyStore in Leipzig, they have published some pretty great articles:
- Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
- Revealing Traces in printouts and scans
- On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS
You can follow them on Mastodon here https://chaos.social/@dys2p
Yes BusKill works similarly – any USB drive can use the BusKill software
The BusKill cable is just nice because it includes a magnetic breakaway, so it works when the laptop is snatched-away at any angle. There’s actually a ton of anti-forensics software like usbkill and BusKill; we enumerate them all on our documentation’s Similar Projects section
You may want to check ^ it out :)
I made a video of this (demo in Windows, MacOS, Linux, TAILS, and QubesOS) with the old DIY model here (sorry for the terrible audio quality)
We’re currently working on an updated video with someone who is much better at video production than me; it should be finished in early 2024.
3·11 months agoYou’d need magnets, pogo pins, wire, glue, solder, etc. The list of materials needed is listed in the “Materials” section of this article.
@Goldfishlaser@lemmy.ml can provide more info
2·1 year agoI’ve paid myself nothing so-far. The price just barely breaks-even for the business. There’s one-time costs like a few grand for a CNC’d injection mold and assembly jig, but also certification fees, product boxes, cardstock paper for documentation inserts, printing fees, artist commissions, packaging materials, warehousing, shipping, other logistics fees, etc.
All of this is explained in-detail in “The Finances” section here.
I prefer open-source hardware to be designed using common off-the-shelf items that are easily found everywhere in the world. Unfortunately, the one vendor of a USB-A magnetic breakaway couplers decided to EOL their product shortly after I published a guide on how to build your own BusKill cable. After we published, they all got sold-out, and we had to go to manufacturers for a custom component.
Prices would drop dramatically if we could do production runs (and actually sell) >10,000 units at a time. Currently we only sell a few cables per month. If you want to help, please tell all your security-conscious friends about BusKill :)
Unfortunately, that’s what it costs to make open-source hardware at small-scale.
There’s a cheaper $59 cable available or you could build your own.
Theft of high-risk users’ data. Data could include private keys (eg theft of cryptocurrency assets), contacts of correspondence (eg sources of a journalist – such as whistleblowers), etc.
For more information, see the Who Uses BusKill? section of the documentation.
Thank you for your input, but I think it’s worth mentioning that that’s absolutely not true.
To be clear: I’m not asking for a no-KYC solution. I’m happy to auth with my company’s official government-issued registration records, with my personal government-issued ID, etc.
I’m not aware of any regulations that require a phone number. There are regulations (eg UK’s PSD2) that effectively require 2FA – and many banks chose to implement this requirement via phone numbers.
Hopefully one day the regulations will explicitly prohibit 2FA OTPs from being transmitted at all (ie so banks are forced to use secure 2FA methods like TOTP or U2F instead of insecure methods like SMS, email, etc). But currently I’m not aware of any KYC regulations that require a phone number from the customer.