The USB Kill Switch | Erase Your Data Instantly

A hacker, who also anonymously goes by the alias Hephaest0s, has just published an excellent anti-forensic wipe out software referred to as – usbkill. For those of you taking the name too literally, don’t fret, the software does not exactly do what the term “usbkill” may imply. Instead, the software maintains its observation on what is connected in your current USB slots, as well as also powers down your laptop or computer quickly if something shifts.

The software’s main concept is that it maintains its observation upon exactly what is connected directly into your USB plug-ins and, along with several adjustments, powers down your laptop or computer quickly.

Say for instance, you are notified that a police officer is outside your house, you would stop off your hard drive operating applications on all your PC systems, as well as position all your personal disk drives and USBs into a commercial de-magnetise for bulk chafing. Essentially, you may as well just dispose of them in a trash can and burn them. What if usbkill had been available to Sabu and the rest of LulzSec? – but what is history, is now history.

Furthermore, burning up or de-magnetising has been the primary convenient technique for online criminals and software and movie pirates. These individuals may then get away from law enforcement officers with absolutely nothing but a huge heap of clean devices and unused tapes as proof – nothing to see here.