• AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Into my computer? Absolutely not. Never EVER.

      Into my work computer? Hell yeah, what’s life without a little chaos sprinkled in?

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      You say so, but my IT guy yelled at me for it. You know the whole “it takes three tries” thing? Well, when it still didn’t work, I pushed a little harder and now the internet doesn’t work any more.

    • Would it be possible to have something that looks like a thumbdrive but literally just shorts out the computer or would one of those things need to be bigger? 🤔

      I’m not worried about viruses. I have nothing sensitive to steal stored on my machine or anything worth saving so I can always wipe the drive. But I would be wary if simply plugging a thing in could fry my PC.

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        I was overdue for a reminder about this site. In the same spirit “USB Killers” are indeed a thing. One I saw, a while back on Hackaday, was basically a bunch of small surface mount capacitors on a board stuffed in a generic thumb-drive type case.