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I'm the author of this post. I originally posted it here, but it didn't get a single upvote. This isn’t my first time getting on the frontpage of hackernews, but it always happens when someone else reposts my link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36282351

Can anyone tell me how the fuck hackernews’ algorithm works to where I can’t ever get traction but someone else does after me?

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We just published our Warrant Canary for 2023 H2

https://buskill.in/canary-006/

Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order)

Prototyping DIY Laptop Kill Cords

How PureBoot and Heads uses the TPM for trusted boot measurements

Happy 2023! We just published our Warrant Canary for the new year

https://www.buskill.in/canary-005/

Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order)

The BusKill (open-source hardware laptop kill cord org) announces Bitcoin Black Friday sale (10% off all hardware Dead Man Switches)

https://www.buskill.in/bitcoin-black-friday-2022/

Useful to protect your cryptocurrency from theft as the BusKill laptop kill cord will lock, shutdown, or wipe your encryption keys if your laptop is physically taken from you

BusKill does not ship with destructive triggers.

The current app is limited to locking your screen. Future releases will include soft/hard shutdown. So, by default, your clumsiness would just mean you have to type your password to unlock your screen. Not a big compromise :)

We do have a "LUKS Header Shredder" trigger (which we call self-destruct as it renders all the data on the FDE disk useless), but we (intentionally) don't include it by default and raise the barrier of entry because of the risk of data loss.

We'll be publishing a more detailed write-up on the LUKS Header Shredder in 2 weeks. You can subscribe for updates on our website (buskill.in) or the campaign directly (crowdsupply.com)

USB-C is easier. There's tons of magnetic breakaway cables to build your own USB-C BusKill. See the documentation:

* https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/hardware_dev/i...

The reason this campaign is limited to USB-A is because there's no USB-A magnetic breakaway cables on the market.

* https://buskill.in/buy

Please support the campaign to make it available to folks who need USB-A BusKill cables.

Lookup "duress passwords"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_code

The feature is more relevant in (full disk) encryption software than OSes.

All orders are handled by CrowdSupply (via Mouser). They handle shipping, VAT, import taxes, etc.

It certainly added cost to the final product, but I figured it was more fair & transparent to everyone to set shipping to $0 internationally (I hate it when you finally make it to payment and only then learn shipping is $20 :/).

Ah, crap, sorry about that.

I'll try to remember to update the verbiage of that lower line to reference the top line to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Thanks for pointing it out!

Hi, Michael Altfield here (Founder of the BusKill project and holder of the PGP Key for signing canaries)

No, you should not be concerned. The latest canary #002 literally says:

  Period: 2021-06-01 to 2021-12-31
  Expiry: 2022-01-31

Source: https://www.buskill.in/canary-002/

What matters is what's cryptographically signed. Did I make a mistake somewhere else?

The next canary will be posted before 2022-01-31.

If all you want is a bluetooth/wifi solution, then there's tons of "solutions" on the market for this. See our "comparison" table on CrowdSupply for some options:

* https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buskill

When I designed BusKill, I intentionally avoided wireless solutions.

BusKill is designed for situations where the risk is extremely high, and you'll find that the radio-based solutions aren't very secure. They're faulty and have huge surface areas of attack.

How does that work? Can you use udev to call a script on an acpi event? Is it cross-platform?

Would love to see a write-up with more info on how to do this :)

Yes! That was just under 2 years ago. It's the same project.

DIY is great. The problem is that after I published that article, everyone on Hacker News went and bought-out all the USB-A magnetic breakways on Amazon. And they literally never re-stocked (I found out later it was EOL from the manufacture).

The reason I launched this crowdfunding campaign was to put these USB-A magnetic breakaway cables back on the market so people could build their own again (and to sell the whole kit, to lower the barrier of entry to non-techie journalists).

* https://buskill.in/buy