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Techlore Interview (BusKill, Interdiction, and OpSec)

We’re super happy to share that Techlore invited BusKill founder Michael Altfield onto their YouTube channel to talk about BusKill, security, and privacy

In addition to answering questions about the origin of BusKill, the interview ran a gamut of issues regarding security and privacy — including

  1. How to mitigate State-sponsored interdiction attacks,
  2. minimizing attack surfaces of mobile phones with broadband processors,
  3. the threats of AI “identity verification” systems on privacy,
  4. and much more

You can watch the full video below

Can’t see video above? Watch it on PeerTube at tehlore.tv or on YouTube at youtu.be/cptk6aBbJpU

To see the full discussion about this video on PeerTube, see:

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.

Techlore Review

If you’d like to see Techlore’s review video of BusKill, you can find that here:

BusKill Techlore Review

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

Bitcoin Accepted Here

Monero Accepted Here

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FUTO Microgrant Recipient (Feb 2025)

We’re thrilled to announce that BusKill was the recipient of a $1,031 microgrant from FUTO!

Can’t see video above? Watch it on PeerTube at peertube.futo.org or on YouTube at youtu.be/Qr0VusrG1jE

We’re elated to see BusKill join the ranks next to CryptPad, ExifTool, KeePassXC, Whonix, Wireshark, Tor Project, Calyx, and numerous other awesome projects that have received grants from FUTO.

We’d like to express our deepest gratitude to the FUTO project for supporting future development of our hardware tool to protect journalists, activists, human rights defenders, whistleblowers, and others. Thank you!

Iterate with us!

Want to print your own BusKill cable? We’ll cover your expenses for filament, magnets, and pogo pins.

We plan to use these funds to document our 3D-Printable BusKill Dead Man Switch. And we need your help!

The BusKill project is looking for a volunteer to write the documentation describing how to print and build your own BusKill cable. The documentation will be written for our Sphinx Documentation Site in reStructuredText and pushed in git.

If you have access to a 3D-Printer, please contact us to receive funds to buy the components needed to document the build of a 3D-Printed BusKill.

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.

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

Bitcoin Accepted Here

Monero Accepted Here

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


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