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Especially if it used capacitors or an onboard battery to keep the siren going when someone inevitably yanks it out quickly :)



and of course label it "boss name personal"

On that note, using it as a pentesting device could be interesting. Perhaps just use the "beep" so the auditor can see how many people trust putting anything into their PC, then at the end cite USB killer.


"loosing" USB sticks with a trojan that just phones home and deletes itself seems to be the usual way to do that in pentests.


interesting, didn't know that. see what happens people come up with innovative ideas all the time and have no idea they already exist!




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