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Sprung: a USB “dead-man Switch” That Panics the Host When Your Token Goes Missing (hackernoon.com)

submitted 1 day ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

It seems like it would be a lot simpler to have a udev rule that triggers when the specific device is removed and runs the forced reboot. That way you don't have an extra daemon running, and you can trigger on other devices too, for instance, your mouse.