Although it sounds strange, the truth is that sometimes it happens to us that to throw away devices such as old hard drives or old PC's we want to break them in a way that cannot be recovered. Sometimes a drill is enough but in other cases even a drill can recover data or pieces of microchips.
That is why a Russian group called Dark Purple has created a tool that will strike down computers or at least it will put them to the test. The device has been baptized with USB Killer, a USB that will strike down the equipment to which it is connected just by giving the order remotely.
USB Killer is out of stock despite its limited performance
The operation of USB Killer is simple because what it does is test the voltage capacity of the equipment, although the tests it performs are so hard that no equipment so far has managed to pass it. In the first place, the USB Killer sends signals that make the equipment begins to accept high peaks of electricity; This will strain certain equipment components, but it is only the beginning.
The second part of the process makes USB Killer sends high doses of electricity through the usb data channel which literally fries the USB ports and the motherboard of the computer, causing little or no data to be rescued from there.
Many warn that this process could be more spectacle than real because the first thing that would burn would be the USB port and therefore the rest of the components would remain intact, but the fact is that no one has tested it on their computers yet.
Although we have to say that USB Killer is being a success. It has been published on its official website at the price of sale of 49,95 euros and in a few days the stock has already been exhausted, having to wait until next September 14 to have more stocks, something quite atypical in this type of gadgets. So it seems that there is more than one user who wants to break or fry a team, but Will it be your team or the neighbor's?
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