This BusKill 2025 Annual Report will discuss the state of the BusKill project at the end of 2025 and the progress we made throughout the year 2025.

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It’s a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys — thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

Executive Summary

• First Annual Report
• Video documentation
• Futo Grant Recipient

In 2025, we’re changing from a twice-yearly Warrant Canary to a once-yearly-canary plus a new once-yearly-annual-report.

In 2025, we published two video to help spread awareness, provide a clear demo, and show how to use BusKill.

And in 2025, we were awarded a grant from Futo.

First Annual Report

Previously we had been burying overviews of our last year’s activity in a newsletter email, which wasn’t very (publicly) transparent.

Going forward, we’ll be be publishing annual reports at the beginning of each year and renewing our Warrant Canaries in the middle of the year.

This was also mentioned in our most-recent cryptographically-signed warrant canary message, Canary #010

Video Documentation

This year we worked with video producers in the privacy/security space to help us publish open-source guides that explain how to use BusKill.

One video (by Techlore) was a short review and demo showing how to use the BusKill Kit.

The other video (by samxplogs) was an unboxing video of the BusKill Kit.

Futo Grant

In Feburary 2025, Futo granted BusKill a microgrant.

This funding is available for volunteers of the BusKill project. Please see the article for info on how you can apply to receive this funding.

Support BusKill

If you want to help our open-source project, please consider purchasing a BusKill cable for yourself or a loved one. It helps us fund further development, and you get your own BusKill cable to keep you or your loved ones safe.

You can also buy a BusKill cable with bitcoin, monero, and other altcoins from our BusKill Store’s .onion site

To be notified about future updates, you can signup for our newsletter.