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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rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year agoUSB Killers are expensive though. No one’s intentionally ditching those for randos to find
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would they? Simple boost coverter costs about 0.5€.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Capacitors alone are not enough.
CephalonKappa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Capacitors a transistor and an op-amp. Thats a couple cents of components.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still not enough