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Shocker: Net anarchist builds sneaky 220v USB stick that fries laptops

Robert Helpmann??
Childcatcher

Re: Net anarchist?

The article mentions that it fries the motherboard and nothing about any effects on storage. My guess is that this might be useful offensively (in as much as destroying someone's machine is useful) but it is unlikely to prevent data from being extracted from a machine's drive except perhaps those attached to the same USB bus as the device.

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