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Student used ‘USB Killer’ to destroy $58000 worth of computers (bgr.com)
9 points by thereare5lights on April 18, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Reminds me of the Etherkiller and Friends at http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often honestly.


Probably because the "pranksters" are not filming themselves using the device to destroy computer equipment.




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