Just plug it into ever pc you touch and tell your professor that you have your midterm or entire semesters notes on there and you dont know why computers turn off when you put it in
Dood ! Thats a stupid explanation. Imagine that: Person A installs a bomb in Person Bs Car, which is activated by their car keys. If Person B presses on their car key button and his car explodes, is it his fault that his car got destroyed? Obviously not. By your logic, most hackers wouldnt do anything illegal.
This isn't a software problem like viruses, this is on a hardware level, so an antivirus probably won't do anything, except for the off-chance that the antivirus disallows certain USB devices based on certain definitions of what a harmful USB device is.
Some dicks plant USB killers in public "USB drops" so random strangers can fry their laptops/phones. The only thing worse than a dick is a dickless dick.
A proper security policy with common defense in depth layers can greatly increase an individual's ability to protect their data from the attacker even if they have physical access. You can take it pretty far even to the point of creating custom triggers that will set off an event in case someone is able to break into the computer case to try and connect USB headers or the like.
To put pressure on hardware manufacturers so that they fix that shit. The more common devices like this are, the sooner manufacturers will have to act, which will benefit all of us.
Can you change the profile pic of your youtube account? Something more generic and connected to brand in general, not the person. no disrespect to linus, hes awesome but you should change it
LinusTechTips Uau you actually answered! Thank you, love your videos. I only play on consoles but I always try to learn something about pcs in your videos!
Doesn't even need to be an EV. Nowadays pretty much every can that you can buy new (except a Caterham, those are as analogue as they get) has its engine, suspension, steering, etc connected to the electronics you find in the interior, so if that dies, the car most likely will die as well. Hell, my uncle is a mechanic, and he once had a Mercedes shutting down its engine every 5 km, not because there was something wrong with the engine of fuel pumping, but because of a bug in the programming related with the AddBlue system. The car was “fixed” with a fucking software update at Mercedes itself without a single bolt being loosed. So if a bug can brick your car, imagine a USB killer. Thank god I drive a 1993 car, don't have to deal with that shit in the slightest :P.
@@Predalien3001 A car that uses AdBlue is supposed to limit its power to a minimum when the tank is empty. At least in Germany some Trucks are modified with little dongles to drive without expencive AdBlue. But its illegal.
I don't get why this is such a big deal. If I gave someone full access to my laptop he could also just throw it out of a window. Can't I just assume people aren't assholes?
US gov probably arrived at those decisive findings after a $200M study, 24-month engineering analysis, panel discussions and committee interviews of leading security experts, etc. A comprehensive 2500-page report can probably be downloaded. Assuming it's not classified.
You could just use the BIOS or other special software to disable all vulnerable ports, like the person that made that Samsung Netbook filled with malware “art” that went for a few million did.
Nawaz Waseem yes but the real threat is teenage pricks who attack your phone or laptop on the go over a bet or something. Or a really pissed off family member. I had a friend who made his brother mad so his brother USB killed every electronic in his room.
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You could try creating a energy capacitor limit to the hardware within the USB to limit the amount of voltage that can be put into a USB device and how much the device can discharge
Try me, I use a ASUS Eee PC successor as my main laptop. It’s a ASUS VivoBook E12 E203NAS-YS03 (Intel Celeron N3350, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC (dual booting heavily modded and customized Win10Pro and heavily modded and customized Ubuntu 20.04))
Budred123 that would be expensive. that would be 6-16 fuses per motherboard + they would have to drop a lot rnd money to make tbem work well in such a confined space.
No worries, I spent 20 years in the computer building/repairing business. I got board and got into automotive repair. Been doing that for the past 4 years.
I don't know what do you see more often an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 7? And btw the iPhone 7 sales were healthy at the beginning but decreased relatively fast.
Alex theTroller even a monkey would have understood that i was talking about luke getting fired. it has become a joke, in one wan show luke got fired a couple of times if im not terribly wrong. i applaud them that they didn't fry up good hardware just for the sake of bullshit views just like the majority of "tech" channels(everythingapplepro, unboxing theraphy, etc..)
HUGSaLOT Valkyrie The CE mark is something a company puts on their products to show that their item follows CE regulations It's not a test facility, it's a promise the company makes
Actually, the threat is completely different: you leave this lying around, people pick it up and plug it in. Of course you can destroy a PC that you have physical access to, but it's hard to make someone hit their PC with a sledgehammer...
Because, as with most things, it is up to people how they use it. A man could use a truck to run down a bunch of holiday shoppers (too soon?), so should we never sell motor vehicles? A knife can be used to stab/cut someone, should we never sell knives? All it takes is one person to have a legitimate use case for this that ISN'T illegal (say, making a video about it?) and at that point we should trust people to do the right thing, even if sometimes they don't. Creating a nanny state where we wrap everything in bubble wrap and constantly surveille people to keep them from hurting themselves and each other is not the proper solution.
its main purpose is for companies to check their port's defense against overvoltage/whatever it called (Some devices' ports are immune to this USB killer, like iPhone's lightning port.)
Ivan Milan well buy was kinda a lie, I built 4 bought one to get a idea how there bult! there pretty easy to build well easier to build then a Raspberry gamboy!
Incase you have important documents on your computer (or something of importance) you could quickly plug it into your own computer if you were ever atttacked or someone tried to steal your computer and get things from it. I assume this is one of many reasons.
+THEmickTHEgun Even if the HDD's internals are dead the data would still be there and readable by specialists as they are based on magnetism, not electricity. If you want to protect data you can just encrypt them and don't need to wreck any hardware.
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And this is why I always dissemble USB devices unknown to myself. The easiest way to protect yourself against the USB killer is to get an *USB-ISOLATOR* ! Manufactures should install something like an ADUM4160 for protection. The alternative is to solder Varistors/VDRs (Voltage Dependent Resistors) in parallel and PTC-Thermistors in row to the data- and voltage-pins of the USB-port.
Caverri A tazer operates at 50,000 volts while flying through the air, and at 1,200 volts once the barbed contacts enter flesh. The most powerful ones operate at 50,000 volts, 26 watts, according to Taser USA. Tazers will absolutely kill a computer dead.
I'm not familiar with arc lighters. From my knowledge of electrics, I would guess that they use higher amperage rather than voltage. But again, I'm unfamiliar. Either way though, they can still probably murder electronics pretty good.
Caverri arc lighters do shock you with 8000v. Most people think it's just some high frequency noise that doesn't hurt you but iv'e tried putting a metal piece and make contact with the beam and it does hurt. but the beam is so small that only tiny stuff can touch it but i wouldn't try
TheArzonite I wouldn't do anything, it would absorb it all depending on how big it is. like the worst it could do would be warm it up a little, but enough could probably fuck a server base up.
Even if you could somehow find a USB port that connected to every single server they had I doubt it would even be enough to destroy them considering how insanely beefy they are
could unhook the front usb headers, though inconvenient, could also put a lockable backplate on the back of the pc to restrict access. could also have a lockable front usb, which connects the front usb header to a key to turn their ports on and off.
lol funny fraud,, usb is 5 volts.. it would require a transfor 5inches sqaure to step it up to 100 volts lets alone 300 lol amazing these idiots dont think about learning basic electronics... usb killer, aka usb PORT... like it says.... not pc killer its a usb killer lol which only really take 7 or 8 volts....
I am making a SD card Killer, which does potentially the same thing, just fits in SD card slots. Might send you guys a dev copy. Also, a dev copy of the Micro SD Killer, but so far, the Micro SD takes 2 minutes to kill most devices.
Thomas Champliaud a USB dead drop is a publicly hidden USB that you could access anytime, you can put any file in it and share it to other people who will use the dead drop in the future. If you change the USB to a killer one you could kill the laptop of the person using it.
O SHIT I LEFT MY SECRET SPY CO-CONSPIRITOR THE WRONG USB DEAD DROP! AND HES TAKING TO TO PLUG INTO HQ'S MAINFRAME!!!! AND WE'RE ALL HARDWIRED INTO THE SERVER!!!! MY BOSS IS GOING TO KILL ME!
@@Entropy67 Plane USB ports are isolated and the only result would be a blown fuse on whatever bank/usb controller your usb outlet is associated with, aka you and your neighbor get no power. The rest of passengers won't even be affected.
@@taylorg7352 Doesn't exist. If you are saying avionics, that has a breaker and would kill the port upon detecting such high power. That and avionics is located in the cockpit, gl getting in there with a USB killer. end point: planes are built to be redundant. Fun fact twin turbine airliners technically only need one engine to fly, they put 2 cause redundant.
Well, if you have a Laptop you can certainly modify it to a good extent. I did that with mine, soldering away the connectors that are connected to the Motherboard directly, making the USB ports unusable. I have a Trackpad and Keyboard built into the Laptop, and i am not using the Laptop for any kind of Gaming while i am walking around, so i am good. Also, you can actually even fix that with adding internal USB connectors, either (on a Desktop) by adding a PCIe extension with inside connectors, or (on a Laptop) re-soldering the original connectors to wires, then soldering the wires to lose USB connectors you can attach things to on the INSIDE of the Laptop (opening the bottom panel or the likes where the HDD is, there you can have the USB hanging if there is enough free space for it). Everything can be fixed if you want to fix it.
Unplug the USB header from the motherboard, block every USB port by using glue and install some of these USB Isolators to the motherboard using an adapter and attach them to the back of your PC-case for accessibility.
5:00 if someone has direct access to your computer nad wants to detroy it they cna smash it with a hammer the dangerous thing about these is that you can hand them to someone saying "look, a usb drive, full of important files oyu need to look at" and they plug it in themselves and well, you cna somewhat protect against that
You guys should talk to some engineer before publicly testifying on engineering stuff. Optocouplers won't work on this case. The power lines could still be attacked, and no one will place an Optocoupler in front of a USB 3.1 data line for signal integrity and cost reasons.
you could protect the data lines with small optos. the power lines of the usb could be protected by just having a semiconductor fuse paired with a snubber + some kind of heavy duty zenner. I have thermistors that will cut a 2000v transient to about 2 volts and if you cascade 2 of them well you can be protected against this kind of attack (you can buy fully made circuits, sinetamer has great ones. ) of course if you have a source with a low output impedance there is no way of protecting a board. It will be like using a welding electrode in de usb port lol!
It's not that simple on this particular case. We are talking about very High Frequency lines, you would have to use an optocoupler that won't disturb a 5GBit line and respond on the same speed, that's not going to be practical on a cost perspective, those are not the cheap optocouplers we usually find. Also zeners, TVS and etc. are made for fast transients this won't be an occasional disturbance on the line, this will be a step-up converter, this could fry all this protections by not leaving them time to dissipate the energy as heat, not even mentioning the PCB clearances you will have to leave for the High Voltage isolations to avoid creepage so the arcs wont jump to other exposed pads nearby. So practically this will increase considerably the cost and size of the product so no manufacture will care to implement it. Theoretically, yes, you can protect any line you want from any kind of voltage, but this case it's just beyond practical.
In our school they put hot glue inside the lan ports of the notebooks for nobody to install malware on it. But the usb ports were free because we should've been able to use them. Don't know why the IT did this.
I already design my USB devices with 1500kv isolation and it still takes up board space but not as much as you would think the issue is that even with isolation, you need to also have a spark gap for high voltages.
Even with optocouplers, the diode inside could die of high voltage. There is no clear way to protect against a very crude attack like this. Not even the "cryptography" could help. Sure if the USB port won't output current unless some device negotiation happens, but then again the whole point of USB is its simplicity and this would just ruin it. Seriously, you could just as easily use a tazer to destroy a USB port like this.
imawhale Why a hammer? Might as well use a bunch of sulfur acid to destroy it. It's not about computer destruction per se, it's about how much damage you can deal to a computer over a USB port. This could just as easily work on a PS/2 port if you got one.
The optocouplers will keep the damage local to the port, and maybe the PSU. That can only work if they're given separate circuits from the motherboard, of course. Yeah, there's still damage, but it's not as expensive. As you say, though, there are other ways. It really depends how far you want to take this security. A simple cup of water can be a pain in the ass too. I think the cryptography is used to protect against BadUSB rather than this attack (I know he said this attack in the video) because the firmware on the device can be verified using a cryptographic signature before running. I don't know all the details, but it should stop a USB drive acting like a keyboard.
Lewis Hazell Well this is a purely electrical attack. It does not care whether you have 10avs or encryption or cryptographic signatures. It's going to fry the mobo & port anyway.
Funny thing: If you fry an airplane's electic system it can still land with ease. You need to also fry the captain and wingmen to seriously damage the plane. ;)
can i plug this into myself cuz midterm week
xSGKx Bu11et U that comeback is beyond the words of any modern human
+Bac Playz
most suicide college students just hang themseles in their dorms
Just plug it into ever pc you touch and tell your professor that you have your midterm or entire semesters notes on there and you dont know why computers turn off when you put it in
Bac Playz lol
Sub to me
"You shouldn't try this on your friends computer cause it illegal." **provides link to buy usb killer in description**
shit that really happened
its illegal because you’re destroying something that is not your property.. idk if its legal if you use it in your own technology tho
Dood ! Thats a stupid explanation. Imagine that: Person A installs a bomb in Person Bs Car, which is activated by their car keys. If Person B presses on their car key button and his car explodes, is it his fault that his car got destroyed? Obviously not. By your logic, most hackers wouldnt do anything illegal.
i litteraly had in mind to test it on ma friends
i would tell him what i would do tho he wouldnt believe me haha
can I not just download the USB killer, like I download RAM?
Anton Wilén is this a joke?
i think this should be possible, you just need a 16GB usb stick
It is the same, I tried it, and it worked. Exactly the same as downloading ram
Just be careful, you could delete the internet.
Do you have a link for your RAM downloads?
Every time i download RAM i get a virus.
What's this white USB stick doing on my floor... I wonder what it does...
_picks up USB Killer_
_plugs it into the de-_
Ded
i wanna plug this in the computer in mah school
@@RandomMan-nv2qh me too cause my computer lab teacher is boring and mean
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Ttyv. ..
So if your computer has no power, the USB killer can't kill it. Bottom line, never plug in your PC
Tino Kollin r/woosh
r/wooosh
@@tinokollin471 r/wooosh
r/wooosh
10000 iq
NASA: we have the best anti-virus and software so powerful it helps steering a rockets
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I think they have protection
@Xenon the Noble Gas SMORTS
They'll have the usb ports on their devices disabled.
This isn't a software problem like viruses, this is on a hardware level, so an antivirus probably won't do anything, except for the off-chance that the antivirus disallows certain USB devices based on certain definitions of what a harmful USB device is.
AO1337 exactly my point.
"180tb server" Little did they know... in just a few months they would have a 1000tb server.....
LOL!!!
they have it now
@@mahfujurrahman4846 same thing dumbass
@@philippham2824 sounds way cooler as "petabyte"
@@philippham2824 Actually, they're quite the opposite of a "dumbass" to know that they're about equivalent... except 1 Petabyte is actually 1024TB
I used it on my old nokia
The USB killer died.
Wait what
Wth
Yeah, old Nokias were un-killable...
I still have a working 3310 does not support modern simcard though.
Sgt van der Walt my man
in computer security, if an attacker has physical access, all bets are off
like i could buy this thing or just use a hammer
but you are spotted instantly. with usb you are more discrete.
Some dicks plant USB killers in public "USB drops" so random strangers can fry their laptops/phones.
The only thing worse than a dick is a dickless dick.
It's common sense though. Would you inject something that you got of the ground into your veins?
A proper security policy with common defense in depth layers can greatly increase an individual's ability to protect their data from the attacker even if they have physical access. You can take it pretty far even to the point of creating custom triggers that will set off an event in case someone is able to break into the computer case to try and connect USB headers or the like.
"Got you this sweet looking USB drive for Christmas fam."
HAHAH
my first murder charge
ScytheP min mobil
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three days later
*plugs it to every electrical appliances in his house during his birthday*
that's heartless
COMPUTER DESTRUCTION (GONE DEADLY) **POLICE CAME** **GONE VIOLENT**
GONE SEXUAL
Nissan Karki Twerking IN DA HOOD?
Nissan Karki NOT CLICKBAIT
Nissan Karki *G O T T H E S U C C.*
GONE SEXUUUUAAALLLL
Machines: The age of the machines has begun
USB Killer: Allow us to introduce ourselves
I feel like the USBK would be the equivalent of a double agent
i kinda doubt that terminators have usb ports, but who knows
WHY WOULD ANYONE CREATE THIS?!
To test vulnerabilities?
Bobo Won some people just want to watch the world burn
The batman reference XD
To put pressure on hardware manufacturers so that they fix that shit. The more common devices like this are, the sooner manufacturers will have to act, which will benefit all of us.
Look at my profile picture and you will find the answer
Will this thing work if I plug this into my mother-in-law?
if she is a robot.
I don't think robots have usb ports.
Amr Ojjeh
you'd be amazed at what you'd discover :/
be wary of scarring though
But what if her "default state" is even worse?
try plugging something else, might work better
Can you change the profile pic of your youtube account? Something more generic and connected to brand in general, not the person.
no disrespect to linus, hes awesome but you should change it
+Nuno Ferreira this assignment has been on Ed's desk for months :p
LinusTechTips I like it!
LinusTechTips Uau you actually answered! Thank you, love your videos. I only play on consoles but I always try to learn something about pcs in your videos!
do you guys have an LTT monogram? just do that
I, for one, welcome Linus's face. He made this shit, he owns this shit.. let him own it.
Electric cars:
chuckles *IM IN DANGER*
Doesn't even need to be an EV. Nowadays pretty much every can that you can buy new (except a Caterham, those are as analogue as they get) has its engine, suspension, steering, etc connected to the electronics you find in the interior, so if that dies, the car most likely will die as well. Hell, my uncle is a mechanic, and he once had a Mercedes shutting down its engine every 5 km, not because there was something wrong with the engine of fuel pumping, but because of a bug in the programming related with the AddBlue system. The car was “fixed” with a fucking software update at Mercedes itself without a single bolt being loosed. So if a bug can brick your car, imagine a USB killer. Thank god I drive a 1993 car, don't have to deal with that shit in the slightest :P.
It works on has gas cars as well
@@omairrazaakram yeah, pretty much everything with an ECU connected to a USB port.
Some Trucks use USB ports as diagnostics ports. I think it would kill the management of the car.
@@Predalien3001 A car that uses AdBlue is supposed to limit its power to a minimum when the tank is empty. At least in Germany some Trucks are modified with little dongles to drive without expencive AdBlue. But its illegal.
I keep trying to plug in my USB but this one killer keeps overvolting my ports
Yea, TheOvervolter27
First Name Last Name who's TheOvervolter27?
I don't get this fuckin meme.
I heard that TheOvervolter27 was the first USB Overvolter.
Some say TheOvervolter27 is the first USB Killer ever, born from fire.
50 years ago guns
50 years later usb killers
lol
I'd rather computers die than people.
Guns have been around for more than 500 years ago lol.
@@pdiggitydodog6266 r/whoosh
Thanks for teaching us history mister intel pentium
I don't get why this is such a big deal. If I gave someone full access to my laptop he could also just throw it out of a window. Can't I just assume people aren't assholes?
***** so don't plug random usb sticks in your laptop...
Ward Huyskes its like USB AIDS. Don't have sex with random people or you will get aids. Don't plug random USB sticks into your PC or it will get AIDS.
Don't take that risk, it's 2016
Harold no 2017 grandad
Well it's just too easy, and i guess "tempting" to plug in a "Killer usb" and see what happens.
Me: *Plugs into Linus's server*
Linus: "FUUUUUUUUCK"
Me: Fuck you 😈
Linus: 😈
Jon Gellus-Nørrebro no
your fired
Jon Gellus-Nørrebro no
It'd be fine though. Unless it's SSD.
"The US govt suggests not plugging things into your computer"
That's so nice of you
"Do not plug an unknown USB drive into your computer"
That all the website says. Simple OPSEC.
What about my porn flash drive?
Tanmay Sahoo They just want you to use cloud so great they can track it.
US gov probably arrived at those decisive findings after a $200M study, 24-month engineering analysis, panel discussions and committee interviews of leading security experts, etc. A comprehensive 2500-page report can probably be downloaded. Assuming it's not classified.
Tanmay Sahoo thanks goverment
What do I call a very large mouse
Linus
Abhinav Pandey I thought I was the only one who thought Linus looked like "Biker Mice"
ayy lmao
#LinusTechTips
Would a zener diode protect a pc from this?
Why would you post this where a guy asked what he calls a very large mouse?
Oh, you say you just bought a $2000 gaming pc?
It would be a shame
if something were to
happen to it. . .
JJ Barajas ii
Name your price
Hey can I insert this usb in there real quick
Please don't scare me like that
xdanihz lol
Person: Finally, I plugged my USB port so nobody can destroy my PC!
Teenager: _Takes off plug_
Person: surprised pikachu face
You could just use the BIOS or other special software to disable all vulnerable ports, like the person that made that Samsung Netbook filled with malware “art” that went for a few million did.
bro that hella scary, I'm not even gonna let friends in my house anymore
Whats a friends?
SMERKY 157 do you have friends? Lol
i can build this easily with a usb plug and a bug zapper,this is just a taser with a usb plug
Tailslol will you stop putting this on everyones comments. no one cares
Russel Segundo yes, then i would have not made this comment, do you have friends? lol
In the wrong hands, this is roughly as dangerous as a glass of water.
Right? What the hell is the point? Just smash it with a hammer and be done with it.
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No, water has a MUCH higher chance of doing permanent damage.
I have an ingenious way to protect your computer..... It's called a door key.
But, the windows...
GenericGameplay Lock your windows too?
Nawaz Waseem You mean encrypt it?
Nawaz Waseem yes but the real threat is teenage pricks who attack your phone or laptop on the go over a bet or something. Or a really pissed off family member. I had a friend who made his brother mad so his brother USB killed every electronic in his room.
+Alex V4 Wow, your friend's brother needs to take a chill bag...if that is a thing.
You wanna buy some deathsticks
You do not want to sell me -a USB killer- deathsticks.
You want to go home and rethink your life.
Hell yeah I'm in
I want to go home and rethink my life?
@@berniecerri4788 no
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I wonder if anyone has taken a USB killer to a Apple store?
Kevin Bowie for what i have heard it doesn't work against Mac's 😥
Rory Henriquez I just saw a video from this channel that has killed a Mac O_o.
Kevin Bowie my bad it doesn't work on the MacBook pro or the air , time togo kill some IPhones i guess
they have a clever little USB voltage shutof on their PC's, and on some of their newer phones
Rory Henriquez EverythingApplePro killed the MacBook 2016 with a USB killer.
i would give i to my teacher and say "here's my presentation"
Adrian Adi not if your school computers are connected to a network. you'd only be breaking what I can imagine is a £200 piece of shit
then say oops wrong one
@Jack Cantwell But doesn't that constitute as vandalism?
Plaid lol, but seriously though don't do it. just don't be a dick.
Trevor Leong not if it is an "accident" ;)
What if i put a ton of these throughout my school floor and label them as 500 GB flash drives?
Davidog well don't tell anyone even close friends that you are doing it that's like a suspension just waiting am I right?
yea lol just a question not a plan lol
Davidog everyone dies
If they find you, you will most likely be suspended or expelled.
The Reaper95 Not sure, if they can sue you in that case
I mean, you just left it there, you didn't plug it into any PCs yourself
You could hear the sadness in his voice thinking about uselessly killing good hardware. I feel ya Luke.
You could try creating a energy capacitor limit to the hardware within the USB to limit the amount of voltage that can be put into a USB device and how much the device can discharge
Next video: Computer Destruction (GONE SEXUAL)
"On a Acer aspire one that was e waste"
That's my lil baby laptop. I use it all the time ಥʖ̯ಥ
Callum W hey i have one too!
Nugget dont forget linux
Try me, I use a ASUS Eee PC successor as my main laptop.
It’s a ASUS VivoBook E12 E203NAS-YS03 (Intel Celeron N3350, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC (dual booting heavily modded and customized Win10Pro and heavily modded and customized Ubuntu 20.04))
I have one... but I only use it as a server because it is garbage.
Imagine giving this to your friend and said that contains all of my secrets
They will kill me ripping out all my organs leaving a bloody mess
Why couldn't they just put a fuse in usb ports? If the port receives a voltage above the usual, the fuse would break the circuit.
Budred123 that would be expensive. that would be 6-16 fuses per motherboard + they would have to drop a lot rnd money to make tbem work well in such a confined space.
Roman 2510M It's better to use a MCB
Fuses break the link after a x amount of amps goes through them. Not voltage.
fightingfalconfan ah, okay, I only have the most basic understanding of electronics (aka not very much).
No worries, I spent 20 years in the computer building/repairing business. I got board and got into automotive repair. Been doing that for the past 4 years.
The USB killer is just as deadly to computers as removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 was to Apple's sales.
not at all?
Lehtaan You're right...
So you're saying it's not deadly at all. *WRONG*
This is like guy using a confusing incorrect this is like analogy
***** In my mind, making a horrible mistake would actually affect Apple's sales. Reality is just..weird.
I don't know what do you see more often an iPhone 6 or an iPhone 7? And btw the iPhone 7 sales were healthy at the beginning but decreased relatively fast.
#LinusWhoNeedsAnUploadScheduleTips
0:23 i never knew that you could plug something into a usb stick
James Middleton I think is for like to charge it when it kills the machine
The cap on the usb stick? The thing covering the usb? That is just a thing to keep dust out of it.
What about usb killer VS 1000 degree knife?
Mattuiop 1000 degree usb knife killer
Mattuiop oh yeah!
Yesterday I was on the computer, I couldn't find the Esc and I lost Ctrl.
Badumm Tss
is this original???
Finally, an orginal joke.
Ok then
2:03 it's not like it's your first time
2:29 aaaaaaand nothing new again. fucken pussy linus grow a pair
Jack Meoff grow a brain instead you morron, at least they are not dumb enough to fry huge amounts of money and usable objects.
Alex theTroller even a monkey would have understood that i was talking about luke getting fired. it has become a joke, in one wan show luke got fired a couple of times if im not terribly wrong. i applaud them that they didn't fry up good hardware just for the sake of bullshit views just like the majority of "tech" channels(everythingapplepro, unboxing theraphy, etc..)
Huh, well I guess I'm sorry. I though you were one of those brain dead people who watch and do that kind of stuff. Hats off to you.
Gulag LUL
*plugs usb killer into a laptop*
Luke: Wait, that’s illegal.
...maybe it's just me, but it seems like giving this product publicity is a bad idea :\
Man Phalanges it's a piece of poop based off poop technology that anyone that has access to goodwill has access to. virtually harmless
Man Phalanges prankers have millions viwers, is not publicity
Anyone can make this crap, you just need an old camera capacitor and charging circuit...
i can build this easily with a usb plug and a bug zapper,this is just a taser with a usb plug
Man Phalanges I
Kk
5:19 how can a device like this get CE certification!?!?!??!?!
With a sticker and 3 seconds of time?
They've tested it, it wasn't any problem XD
It's the Chinese Export version of CE. Very slight difference in the "font" used.
HUGSaLOT Valkyrie
The CE mark is something a company puts on their products to show that their item follows CE regulations
It's not a test facility, it's a promise the company makes
cant Kill my 2016 MacBook Pro.. no ports!! haha
next thing u know an adapter
lol
hand me your laptop
*dunks in water*
voila!
dead....
Jay Alison lol, no.
chbrules probably. You would have to have in your possession first tho.. Lol
Even better - you system doesn’t even need to be “on”! If it supplies standby power to USB (perhaps for “charging” devices) this will still go zap.
This isn't really any more of a hazard than someone hitting your device with a sledgehammer.
You'd hear someone hitting your PC with a sledgehammer.
Actually, the threat is completely different: you leave this lying around, people pick it up and plug it in. Of course you can destroy a PC that you have physical access to, but it's hard to make someone hit their PC with a sledgehammer...
No... If u hit a device with a sledge hammer, its completely destroyed, if u plug it in, not everything is gone
The difference you can get a sledgehammer for less money
You can't carry a sledgehammer in your pocket
Why is it legal to sell this? it's basically a tech weapon
Because, as with most things, it is up to people how they use it. A man could use a truck to run down a bunch of holiday shoppers (too soon?), so should we never sell motor vehicles? A knife can be used to stab/cut someone, should we never sell knives? All it takes is one person to have a legitimate use case for this that ISN'T illegal (say, making a video about it?) and at that point we should trust people to do the right thing, even if sometimes they don't.
Creating a nanny state where we wrap everything in bubble wrap and constantly surveille people to keep them from hurting themselves and each other is not the proper solution.
mygetrichslowplan Unlike a truck, or a knife, this device has no other utility than for killing the motherboards of one's enemies.
Or you can use it on your old stuff that you throw out anyway to keep that creepy guy going through your trash from coming back.
its main purpose is for companies to check their port's defense against overvoltage/whatever it called (Some devices' ports are immune to this USB killer, like iPhone's lightning port.)
Then why do we have guns? Say someone comes at me with a samsung galaxy S1? do i just let them blow me up?
there are those people who just wants to see the world burn.
Ivan Milan yep I bought 5!
andrew hill didn't know satan had a son?
Ivan Milan well buy was kinda a lie, I built 4 bought one to get a idea how there bult! there pretty easy to build well easier to build then a Raspberry gamboy!
ME! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Imagine having a usb port
Meme was made by apple macbook gang
Imagine having a macbook
This reply was made by windows / linux gang
Just get a dang adapter. It’ll still work!
@Mine Gamer imagine having a phone
this post was made by Samsung Smart Fridge Gang
They have attatchments for everything you can think of even plugging into an ethernet input. They really got their boom stick this time
@Mine Gamer imagine having a letter.
this comment was made by stone engraving gang.
The question is and will always remain, why. Why was it even made?
Incase you have important documents on your computer (or something of importance) you could quickly plug it into your own computer if you were ever atttacked or someone tried to steal your computer and get things from it. I assume this is one of many reasons.
THEmickTHEgun I doubt it would do anything to your hard drives. Your mobo would be fucked but your hard drives would be fine.
im sure at 100% the ubs killer don't kill an hard drive or ssd
Why not?
We make shit cause we can - and this thing is a fun project :)
+THEmickTHEgun Even if the HDD's internals are dead the data would still be there and readable by specialists as they are based on magnetism, not electricity.
If you want to protect data you can just encrypt them and don't need to wreck any hardware.
The Arctic Warfare L96 high-powered sniper rifle that can be silenced and scoped on a budget! With this powerful product you can precisely and safely destroy any piece of tech in an up to 2000 meter range!
All of that for the low low price of £5999.99
(ammo and accessories are not included)
Still a better gift than No mans sky.
no mans sky has come a long way. the rayrod mod adds a ton of jungles and animals.
Ziirf nah
interesting spin on the "still a better love story than twilight" meme
0:36 More specifically:
1st one: Power
2nd one: Data in
3rd one: Data out
4th one: Ground
(I think)
And this is why I always dissemble USB devices unknown to myself.
The easiest way to protect yourself against the USB killer is to get an *USB-ISOLATOR* !
Manufactures should install something like an ADUM4160 for protection.
The alternative is to solder Varistors/VDRs (Voltage Dependent Resistors) in parallel and PTC-Thermistors in row to the data- and voltage-pins of the USB-port.
PERILEX "google"
_"google"_?
Linus you forgot to add *GONE SEXUAL*
*Remember, no Russian*
Nice Cod MW2 reference.
Так блять!
SonicFon СоникФон bypassed
In Russia, the USB killer kills you
Нет ты
Should've been:
COMPUTER DESTRUCTION (GONE DEADLY) (EMPLOYEE FIRED!)
Don't try this at home...
But you should totally buy it from our amazon affiliate link below!
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You got me lmao
I had a dream about having one of these up my bottom
pretty sure that's someone's fetish
EDIT: OH DEAR GOD
"OH MY GOD. I'm going to get fired. I didn't think that would actually work" DEAD
what if you tazed the usb port, will it kill the computer?
Caverri A tazer operates at 50,000 volts while flying through the air, and at 1,200 volts once the barbed contacts enter flesh. The most powerful ones operate at 50,000 volts, 26 watts, according to Taser USA.
Tazers will absolutely kill a computer dead.
damn...
how about those arc lighters, aren't they' basically tasers?
I'm not familiar with arc lighters. From my knowledge of electrics, I would guess that they use higher amperage rather than voltage. But again, I'm unfamiliar. Either way though, they can still probably murder electronics pretty good.
Caverri arc lighters do shock you with 8000v. Most people think it's just some high frequency noise that doesn't hurt you but iv'e tried putting a metal piece and make contact with the beam and it does hurt. but the beam is so small that only tiny stuff can touch it but i wouldn't try
1:52 wasn't sure whether to go with 'joke' or 'replaced components with old crap you had lying around'
*****
I know, that isn't what I said.
Imagine plugging one of these onto Google's server.
TheArzonite I wouldn't do anything, it would absorb it all depending on how big it is. like the worst it could do would be warm it up a little, but enough could probably fuck a server base up.
Uhhh can you clarify lol
I am pretty sure they have over voltage protection there, pretty pretty sure
Like they would have a random usb po....
Even if you could somehow find a USB port that connected to every single server they had I doubt it would even be enough to destroy them considering how insanely beefy they are
could unhook the front usb headers, though inconvenient, could also put a lockable backplate on the back of the pc to restrict access. could also have a lockable front usb, which connects the front usb header to a key to turn their ports on and off.
Or you could just wire an AC cord to a USB plug. . .
Tuxedo Jack is that you?
Adrian Godoy it wouldn't
jonasxdufek What are you, 5? Its not hard to rewire electronics without shocking yourself.
no, it will catch fire due to the fact that it will keep going forever, unlike the usb killer, which pulses the current and stops when the thing dies.
I see no problem with this. If the computer catches fire then i'm pretty sure it's ded
the first time I watched this I actually stopped when he plugged in the usb to the computer because I thought it was really dead
Luke: it can basically kill any device
TH-cam: where you can buy this product
lol funny fraud,, usb is 5 volts.. it would require a transfor 5inches sqaure to step it up to 100 volts lets alone 300 lol amazing these idiots dont think about learning basic electronics...
usb killer, aka usb PORT... like it says.... not pc killer its a usb killer lol which only really take 7 or 8 volts....
4:18 that was my first laptop. I was more hyped for spectrobes origins that Christmas
People always gotta come up with some new way to fuck up someone else's day. If computer viruses weren't enough to worry about...
right? so now this channel is making this kind of criminal stuff seem fun. :(
4:48 "My goodness what an idea. Why didn't I think of that>"
Lol This reminds me of the time I placed my friends spark plug inside his gas tank before he woke up.
MBW that wouldn't even work... Lol....
Well damn. ._.
What's that supposed to do? Rattle around? Spark plugs don't make sparks on their own.
And the tank probably didnt have enough oxygen to blow anyways.
I am making a SD card Killer, which does potentially the same thing, just fits in SD card slots. Might send you guys a dev copy. Also, a dev copy of the Micro SD Killer, but so far, the Micro SD takes 2 minutes to kill most devices.
'Hey Watcha doin'?'
'Just killing the car, won't take a second...'
SkyBluePenguin You're*
GavAttack Official I hope you’re joking
how did it go
the worst thing to do with the USB killer is turn it into a USB dead drop.
can you explain ?
Thomas Champliaud a USB dead drop is a publicly hidden USB that you could access anytime, you can put any file in it and share it to other people who will use the dead drop in the future. If you change the USB to a killer one you could kill the laptop of the person using it.
wow im getting one
O SHIT I LEFT MY SECRET SPY CO-CONSPIRITOR THE WRONG USB DEAD DROP! AND HES TAKING TO TO PLUG INTO HQ'S MAINFRAME!!!! AND WE'RE ALL HARDWIRED INTO THE SERVER!!!! MY BOSS IS GOING TO KILL ME!
Thought this was a TechRax video with that title and thumbnail
Why would you warn your audience about this and then advertise your affiliate link to purchase this through amazon in the first place?
Try plugging it into a plane
Jk
Uhh captain, my phone has stopped charging!
@@taylorg7352 Wait wouldn't anyones phone that was connected at the time die too?
@@Entropy67 Plane USB ports are isolated and the only result would be a blown fuse on whatever bank/usb controller your usb outlet is associated with, aka you and your neighbor get no power. The rest of passengers won't even be affected.
Plug it into the main computer
@@taylorg7352 Doesn't exist. If you are saying avionics, that has a breaker and would kill the port upon detecting such high power. That and avionics is located in the cockpit, gl getting in there with a USB killer.
end point: planes are built to be redundant.
Fun fact twin turbine airliners technically only need one engine to fly, they put 2 cause redundant.
This would make an excellent "gift" for someone you hate.
Heatblaze Or just leave it on their desk, they will probably plug it into their pc, because they're curious what's on it
Eddy Good idea.
***** I take it back. This is a good idea.
THAT HURT ME ON SO MANY LEVELS
oh wait thank god
That's what she said
Your mom said the same thing
Sebastian Johnson Savage
Why cement? Just unplug your USB header from the motherboard.
Yeah, no. Most mouses and keyboards are connected via USB.
Well, if you have a Laptop you can certainly modify it to a good extent. I did that with mine, soldering away the connectors that are connected to the Motherboard directly, making the USB ports unusable. I have a Trackpad and Keyboard built into the Laptop, and i am not using the Laptop for any kind of Gaming while i am walking around, so i am good. Also, you can actually even fix that with adding internal USB connectors, either (on a Desktop) by adding a PCIe extension with inside connectors, or (on a Laptop) re-soldering the original connectors to wires, then soldering the wires to lose USB connectors you can attach things to on the INSIDE of the Laptop (opening the bottom panel or the likes where the HDD is, there you can have the USB hanging if there is enough free space for it). Everything can be fixed if you want to fix it.
Unplug the USB header from the motherboard, block every USB port by using glue and install some of these USB Isolators to the motherboard using an adapter and attach them to the back of your PC-case for accessibility.
5:00
if someone has direct access to your computer nad wants to detroy it they cna smash it with a hammer
the dangerous thing about these is that you can hand them to someone saying "look, a usb drive, full of important files oyu need to look at" and they plug it in themselves
and well, you cna somewhat protect against that
PLUG IT TO THE MAIN SERVER LOL
Using the fact that you are safe behind a computer screen to put someone down> sad
too much h8 m8
do you think they will ever do that? -_-
LMG is not dumb, you know?
You guys should talk to some engineer before publicly testifying on engineering stuff. Optocouplers won't work on this case. The power lines could still be attacked, and no one will place an Optocoupler in front of a USB 3.1 data line for signal integrity and cost reasons.
you could protect the data lines with small optos. the power lines of the usb could be protected by just having a semiconductor fuse paired with a snubber + some kind of heavy duty zenner. I have thermistors that will cut a 2000v transient to about 2 volts and if you cascade 2 of them well you can be protected against this kind of attack (you can buy fully made circuits, sinetamer has great ones. ) of course if you have a source with a low output impedance there is no way of protecting a board. It will be like using a welding electrode in de usb port lol!
It's not that simple on this particular case. We are talking about very High Frequency lines, you would have to use an optocoupler that won't disturb a 5GBit line and respond on the same speed, that's not going to be practical on a cost perspective, those are not the cheap optocouplers we usually find. Also zeners, TVS and etc. are made for fast transients this won't be an occasional disturbance on the line, this will be a step-up converter, this could fry all this protections by not leaving them time to dissipate the energy as heat, not even mentioning the PCB clearances you will have to leave for the High Voltage isolations to avoid creepage so the arcs wont jump to other exposed pads nearby. So practically this will increase considerably the cost and size of the product so no manufacture will care to implement it. Theoretically, yes, you can protect any line you want from any kind of voltage, but this case it's just beyond practical.
MFeinstein you can get optos that respond to those speeds. will it be cheap.. no. but the methodology is not hard.
elave16 yes, as I said on the original post: not practical for cost reasons.
nhmhmhmmjmjMFeinstein
Wow, he predicted he'd 're fired like 1 year ago
Wait, was he actually fired?
Daneall Saleem no he works in their float plane development section now
@@militaryman7778 so was he fired or was this a joke. I don't get what that job position means maybe your being sarcastic?
it was a joke, Float Plane is Linus Media Groups version of youtube. Luke was not fired. He is still on their WAN show to this day aswell
@@militaryman7778 oh ok thx for explaining. Just started getting into linus channel so I wasnt sure
In our school they put hot glue inside the lan ports of the notebooks for nobody to install malware on it. But the usb ports were free because we should've been able to use them. Don't know why the IT did this.
I guess I know why apple took the USB out
Michou6220 adaptors
cause its slow and the past?
No, because they want money and make you buy dongles.
Ryan Adams apple fanboys are hilarious.
drviver is that why 90% of the products I see that require you to connect them to your PC uses USB?
when he talk about acer aspire one, where i am now still use it for work from home
what if i plug this into my friend
Luciano de Benedictis USB is kill
Your friend lost 100 HP. You gain +100 XP.
Your friend gets a +10 boost in str
+1 kill +100 exp +60 str
lets just say dat your freind is either going to be very lit
or not lit at all
I already design my USB devices with 1500kv isolation and it still takes up board space but not as much as you would think the issue is that even with isolation, you need to also have a spark gap for high voltages.
got me so bad
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GravityZero H
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"My Little First Clickbait Title"
I think the title is a reference to all these (STORY TIME) mêmes.
*plugs into Wal-Mart photo center*
funi
3:53 life hacks because there is hot glue
This man plugged a usb stick into a laptop! You wont believe what happened next!!
Funny that it has a CE marking when it's sole purpose is to be the most unsafe usb device possible.
Even with optocouplers, the diode inside could die of high voltage. There is no clear way to protect against a very crude attack like this. Not even the "cryptography" could help. Sure if the USB port won't output current unless some device negotiation happens, but then again the whole point of USB is its simplicity and this would just ruin it.
Seriously, you could just as easily use a tazer to destroy a USB port like this.
xan1242 If you want to destroy a computer, use a hammer
imawhale Why a hammer? Might as well use a bunch of sulfur acid to destroy it.
It's not about computer destruction per se, it's about how much damage you can deal to a computer over a USB port.
This could just as easily work on a PS/2 port if you got one.
an axe. and a chopping block. should make a video about it or something.
The optocouplers will keep the damage local to the port, and maybe the PSU. That can only work if they're given separate circuits from the motherboard, of course. Yeah, there's still damage, but it's not as expensive.
As you say, though, there are other ways. It really depends how far you want to take this security. A simple cup of water can be a pain in the ass too.
I think the cryptography is used to protect against BadUSB rather than this attack (I know he said this attack in the video) because the firmware on the device can be verified using a cryptographic signature before running. I don't know all the details, but it should stop a USB drive acting like a keyboard.
Lewis Hazell Well this is a purely electrical attack. It does not care whether you have 10avs or encryption or cryptographic signatures. It's going to fry the mobo & port anyway.
The great thing about testing this in a car is that you can probably replace the fuse.
Anybody tried it on a plane yet?
Mathis wow I never thought of that, it would be interesting to see.
interesting, yes. Wouldn't wanna try this mid flight, you never know hahahah
Mathis you guys should do that. Also you should reply in this comment what state you're over before you do it. I love free stuff.
Funny thing: If you fry an airplane's electic system it can still land with ease.
You need to also fry the captain and wingmen to seriously damage the plane. ;)
+HistoricaHungaria Except the Airbus A380, which is too large for purely manual controls. Although I'm sure that one also has backup systems.