Student Fried $58,000-Worth of College Computers Using 'USB Killer' Device

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its for people that pay a yearly fee for access to those areas...as in not so general and or offensive areas the free bees wont ever see

Oddly enough, that's why I never subscribed. I see enough bullshit on the regular forums, why the hell would I pay to see more abusive posts?
 
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Ill look into it.....my life is hardcore feast or famine....it erks me just paying a monthly prime bill or getting highest data caps on my phone. I guess a lot of things are still up in the air on just how hardforums continues on over the next couple of years...Many donate there time here im sure?
 
Ill look into it.....my life is hardcore feast or famine....it erks me just paying a monthly prime bill or getting highest data caps on my phone. I guess a lot of things are still up in the air on just how hardforums continues on over the next couple of years...Many donate there time here im sure?
Its $15 lifetime come on your not buying a house.
 
Its $15 lifetime come on your not buying a house.
well i was on the edge.....or at least being a happy member before this shake up went down. It seemed like Kyle wanted productive members as much as money payers? Im sure intel is throwing out 100k+ a year with per diem not counting travel. I never could wrap my head around how everyone got paid so well or at least acted like it.:)
 
Ill look into it.....my life is hardcore feast or famine....it erks me just paying a monthly prime bill or getting highest data caps on my phone. I guess a lot of things are still up in the air on just how hardforums continues on over the next couple of years...Many donate there time here im sure?

I can't believe you aren't a member already... I rarely even leave GenMay.
 
Something about a brother, something about a receipt, adventures in sextron land, hut thread, piitb, buzzer, a blind someone trying to get a masters with a felony drug trafficking record....the list goes on.

Oh wow, looks like I may be able to contribute to those thread :D heading there now (TAXI !?)
EDIT: Found pictures too :eek: good thing I don't work tomorrow

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That's nothing... When I was in college, some idiot working on the electrical system hooked hot up to ground and fried a whole bunch of computers in my dorm.. luckily my computer survived but my monitor caught fire. The whole floor of the dorm smelled like fried electronics for weeks.

And the college pretty much said "screw you, we aren't paying for or replacing anything".
 
That's nothing... When I was in college, some idiot working on the electrical system hooked hot up to ground and fried a whole bunch of computers in my dorm.. luckily my computer survived but my monitor caught fire. The whole floor of the dorm smelled like fried electronics for weeks.

And the college pretty much said "screw you, we aren't paying for or replacing anything".

Similar happened to me and my family, TV provider had "very" bad grounding of their device outside the apartments, multiple (4)TV receivers died and brought a few HDMI ports with them.
Tried to speak with them but support would simply say how can you be certain the TV HDMI didn't fry the receivers ? (God d*amned level 1 supports)... I had to use an enterprise account for internet in the same building to get proper support redo all the grounds outside...
 
DAM you! So i just bought a liftetime to make you happy

Time for a "I'm new here" thread! Some of the Lifers in Genmay need to come out and liven up the place a bit!
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Is there an adapter to get these to plugin to phones? I need to play a prank on a friend.
 
Is there an adapter to get these to plugin to phones? I need to play a prank on a friend.

Many different adapters. Almost all are already usb in some sense, besides apple, and there are adapters for that.
 
Similar happened to me and my family, TV provider had "very" bad grounding of their device outside the apartments, multiple (4)TV receivers died and brought a few HDMI ports with them.
Tried to speak with them but support would simply say how can you be certain the TV HDMI didn't fry the receivers ? (God d*amned level 1 supports)... I had to use an enterprise account for internet in the same building to get proper support redo all the grounds outside...

I was working a weekend rollout of an entire new office building of PCs when someone noticed all the brand-new power bars indicating a fault, on every g-d floor (6 stories). They all had a hot ground thanks to a lazy journeyman and his idiot apprentice. Eight guys and a camel server on OT for nothing! :mad:
 
Weird thing is the guy got his MBA from the school in 2017 so I am wondering what his beef was.
Likely he felt ripped off because he had a business degree but no skill at anything thus not a good prospect to hire.
There is a glut of people out there with worthless degrees 100K plus in debt from them and cannot get a job because they are educated in something there is no demand for.
 
where is filips video revealing the big conspiracy ?
He was last seen yesterday.

He either pussed out or he finally got it delivered only to learn the damn thing does work.

From what I can tell, it's quite capable of frying many motherboards out there because they don't have fuses in the right places. I imagine the device has enough punch to zap not only the USB controller but make it to the next most sensitive component, the chipset. I imagine there will be the occasional board out there that will simply have the USB ports fried but still capable of booting.

In most cases though, losing USB would make it unusable. This is especially true for laptops and slim clients with no expansion capabilities.
 
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He was last seen yesterday.

He either pussed out or he finally got it delivered only to learn the damn thing does work.

From what I can tell, it's quite capable of frying many motherboards out there because they don't have fuses in the right places. I imagine the device has enough punch to zap not only the USB controller but make it to the next most sensitive component, the chipset. I imagine there will be the occasional board out there that will simply have the USB ports fried but still capable of booting.

In most cases though, losing USB would make it unusable. This is especially true for laptops and slim clients with no expansion capabilities.

NO speculation, there is no pussy out. But, everyone will have to wait. This is like the Thanos reveal in marvel; one day when you are browsing Genmay you will see a thread titled "All The [H]oles." No further spoilers.
 
NO speculation, there is no pussy out. But, everyone will have to wait. This is like the Thanos reveal in marvel; one day when you are browsing Genmay you will see a thread titled "All The [H]oles." No further spoilers.
Seem like a lot of hyper you like to make about yourself, but no substance so far.

Ass I see it any delay just meant time to tinker with the device and "modify" it and reduces the evidental value for your claim.
 
Seem like a lot of hyper you like to make about yourself, but no substance so far.

Ass I see it any delay just meant time to tinker with the device and "modify" it and reduces the evidental value for your claim.

As I see it I have a job and i don't do this for a living, I can post it when ever I want. If people do not agree with my outcome they are welcome to go buy a usb killer and test it themselves on all their hardware.
 
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