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• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  USB Killers are expensive though. No one’s intentionally ditching those for randos to find

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  • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Capacitors alone are not enough.

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      • CephalonKappa@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Capacitors a transistor and an op-amp. Thats a couple cents of components.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Expensive is relative. You can find a sketchy USB Killer on AliExpress for like $6.

    Maybe expensive as a single throwaway device, but not very expensive to cause pure chaos to a bunch of random people.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why would they? Simple boost coverter costs about 0.5€.

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