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BusKill
BusKill is an open-source hardware and software project that designs computer kill cords to protect the confidentiality of the system's data from physical theft. The hardware designs are licensed CC-BY-SA and the software is licensed GPLv3. BusKill cables are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors. The name BusKill is an amalgamation of "Bus" from USB and "Kill" from kill cord. History The first computer kill cord was built by Michael Altfield in 2017 The term "BusKill" was coined by Altfield in January 2020 when publishing the first BusKill build and udev usage instructions (Linux-only), and it was ported by cyberkryption from Linux to Windows a couple weeks later. The project's official website launched the following month. The first OS X version of the BusKill app was released in May 2020 by Steven Johnson. A cross-platform rewrite of the software based on Kivy was released in August 2020 with support for Linux, OS X, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buskill V0
BusKill is an open-source hardware and open-source software, software project that designs computer kill cords to protect the Information security#Confidentiality, confidentiality of the system's data from physical theft. The hardware designs are licensed CC-BY-SA and the software is licensed GPLv3. BusKill cables are available commercially from the official website or through authorized distributors. The name BusKill is an amalgamation of "Bus" from USB and "Kill" from kill cord. History The first computer kill cord was built by Michael Altfield in 2017 The term "BusKill" was coined by Altfield in January 2020 when publishing the first BusKill build and udev usage instructions (Linux-only), and it was ported by cyberkryption from Linux to Windows a couple weeks later. The project's official website launched the following month. The first OS X version of the BusKill app was released in May 2020 by Steven Johnson. A cross-platform rewrite of the software based on Kivy (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |