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[QubesOS] Disarm BusKill Dead Man Switch with Keyboard Shortcut (Guide) (www.buskill.in)

This article describes how to setup keyboard shortcuts in QubesOS so that you can temporarily disarm (pause) the BusKill laptop kill cord....

maltfield, 7 months ago

Yes, BusKill works with any USB drive.

• github.com/buskill/buskill-app

In fact, the BusKill cable is just a USB Drive. The only thing “fancy” that it has is a magnetic coupler in the middle of the 1-meter cable so that it will breakaway at any angle. But, if you’d like, you can build your own. The instructions are here:

• docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/…/bom.html

BusKill Dead Man Switch now available in a brick-and-mortar in Germany 🧱🛡️ (www.buskill.in)

We’re happy to announce that, for the first time ever, BusKill cables can be purchased in-personin Leipzig, Germany....

maltfield, 8 months ago

Most people don’t, but there are many high-risk folks who do. The main target is journalists, activists, and human rights defenders operating in oppressive countries.

There’s also benefits for anyone with very sensitive private keys or other IP on their machines, including some businesses and cryptocurrency traders.

For more info, see Who Uses BusKill? in our documentation

• docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/…/what.html#who-us…

maltfield, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

I made a video of this (demo in Windows, MacOS, Linux, TAILS, and QubesOS) with the old DIY model here (sorry for the terrible audio quality)

• www.buskill.in/demo-2/

We’re currently working on an updated video with someone who is much better at video production than me; it should be finished in early 2024.

maltfield, 8 months ago

Yes BusKill works similarly – any USB drive can use the BusKill software

• github.com/buskill/buskill-app

The BusKill cable is just nice because it includes a magnetic breakaway, so it works when the laptop is snatched-away at any angle. There’s actually a ton of anti-forensics software like usbkill and BusKill; we enumerate them all on our documentation’s Similar Projects section

• docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/…/attribution.html#si…

You may want to check ^ it out :)

maltfield, 8 months ago

It’s run by the folks at dys2p.

Besides running ProxyStore in Leipzig, they have published some pretty great articles:

• Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice
• Revealing Traces in printouts and scans
• On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS

You can follow them on Mastodon here chaos.social/

BusKill-Killswitche persönlich in einem Ladengeschäft in Deutschland (Leipzig) 🧱🛡️ (www.buskill.in)

Wir freuen uns bekannt zu geben, dass BusKill-Kabel zum ersten Mal persönlich in einem Ladengeschäft in Deutschland (Leipzig) gekauft werden kann via @dys2p....

maltfield, 8 months ago

Thank you for supporting open-source security hardware <3