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Phish or Treat? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was overdue for a reminder about this site. In the same spirit "USB Killers" are indeed a thing. One I saw, a while back on Hackaday, was basically a bunch of small surface mount capacitors on a board stuffed in a generic thumb-drive type case.