We’re happy to announce the release of BusKill v0.7.0!
Most importantly, this release allows you to arm the BusKill GUI app such that it shuts-down your computer when the BusKill cable’s connection to the computer is severed.
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.
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Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4 |
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.
You can upgrade your BusKill app to the latest version either by
This update includes many bug fixes and new features, including:
buskill.ini
config file--run-trigger
to be executed inside usb_handler child process and communicate to root_child through the parent processYou can find our changelog here:
We’ve also made many improvements to our documentation
soft-shutdown
trigger in the GUIThis release now allows you to choose between either [a] locking your screen or [b] shutting down your computer when you arm the BusKill app from the GUI. By default, the BusKill app will trigger the lockscreen. To choose the ‘soft-shutdown
’ trigger, open the navigation drawer, go to the Settings
Screen, click Trigger
, and change the selected trigger from lock-screen
to soft-shutdown
. For more information, see our Software GUI User Guide.
We’re also happy to announce that, with the release of Debian 12, it’s now possible to install BusKill in Debian with Apt!
sudo apt-get install buskill
We do our best to test the BusKill app on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. But unfortunately it’s possible that our app doesn’t fully function on all versions, distributions, and flavours of these three platforms.
We could really use your help testing the BusKill app, especially if you have access to a system that’s not (yet) listed in our Supported Platforms.
And in this release, we specifically would like you to help us test the new soft shutdown feature. Please let us know if it does or does not work for you.
Please contact us if you’d like to help test the BusKill app :)
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