Originally Posted by
Exec_Plat
How about: "If someone steals my stuff it is designed to destroy either my laptop or their laptop."
The latter's not legal; the former is.
Reminds me of a personalGPS jammer I ran across years ago.
I suspect the FCC may not approve of that.
Originally Posted by
greggarious
I'm a computer security researcher. I wouldn't bring that into an airport personally.
If you read the details, it's got a bunch of capacitors soldered onto the board - kind of like a hand made taser. Sounds like a great way to get charged with smuggling a weapon.
I probably wouldn't bring it either, but I'd defend someone doing so.
FWIW I've had (normal) peripherals that happened to degrade in such a way as to short out and power spike the USB port they were plugged in to. Not enough to damage, but enough to make the USB controller freak out and cut itself off.