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Phish or Treat? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

USB killers are a thing. The top three autocomplete for USB killer were ...buy, ...eBay, and ...Amazon

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer

Paper on their effectiveness on different hardware: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/137908/1/WRAP-killing-your-device-via-USB-port-Angelopoulou-2020.pdf

These are moderately easy to make and cheap to buy

The first two returns from Google were sites selling USB killers