If you are in the library, in the internet café or in a comparable place, you are taking a risk when in doubt. Opportunity makes thieves, as the saying goes. If you don’t look for a moment, yours can Laptop have landed inconspicuously in someone else’s pocket. If it is not adequately secured, your data could end up in the wrong hands. the Dead man’s switch Buskill is intended to provide a remedy for such cases.
BusKill – the dead man’s switch for the laptop
BusKill released its own dead man’s switch this week. Specifically, it is a cable that is connected to your laptop via a magnetic adapter. If the connection is interrupted, the computer will be locked. This is to prevent strangers from accessing your data.
The gadget is primarily intended for journalists, activists and defenders of human rights. These are often not only victims of the Pegasus spyware, but also of physical access.
“Most people don’t work with top-secret documents from whistleblowers and aren’t afraid of the secret police knocking on their door, but that’s exactly the risk I developed BusKill for. And I wanted it to be accessible to journalists who don’t necessarily use Linux and don’t know how to use the CLI [command line interface] used.”
BusKill founder Michael Altfield (via TechCrunch)
When is the gadget worth it?
On its website, BusKill lists the following areas of application for the laptop dead man’s switch:
- traveler
- Crypto trader
- Journalists
- Activists
- company
- Military / secret service
Source: TechCrunch