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buskill - Lock or shutdown if your device is stolen (for use with laptop kill cord)

Authors

       Michael Altfield (<michael@michaelaltfield.net>) and The BusKill Team (<https://buskill.in/contact>).

                                                                                                      BUSKILL(1)

Description

       buskill  is  a  cross-platform CLI and GUI app that can lock or shutdown your computer when a USB hotplug
       removal event occurs.

       It's designed to work with the BusKill laptop kill cord, which is a hardware dead man switch that tethers
       a user to their computer via a USB cable with an integrated magnetic breakaway.  If the cable is  discon‐
       nected  (eg  by  a  snatch-and-run thief stealing the user's machine), then this software can trigger the
       computer to lock or shutdown -- thus protecting encrypted files (eg bitcoin private keys) or current  lo‐
       gin sessions (eg online banking) from theft.

Examples

buskill--list-triggers : Display all possible triggers, then exits.

       buskill--triggerlock-screen--arm : Arm the buskill app with the 'lock-screen' trigger so that a USB
       hotplug removal event will lock the device's screen

       buskill--triggersoft-shutdown--arm : Arm the buskill app with the 'soft-shutdown' trigger  so  that  a
       USB hotplug removal event will cause the device to shutdown

Name

       buskill - Lock or shutdown if your device is stolen (for use with laptop kill cord)

Options

-h, --help : Show this help message and exit.

       --version : Print version and exit.

       --list-triggers : List all available triggers.

       -v, --verbose : Increase output verbosity.

       -t , --trigger : Choose trigger to execute.  See --list-triggers for all possible values.

       -T, --run-trigger : Immediately execute the trigger on start.

       -a, --arm : Arms BusKill.

See Also

       This  manpage  is  limited  in scope.  The BusKill project's main documentation (complete with images and
       videos) is available at docs.buskill.in (https://docs.buskill.in)

       • Full Documentation (https://docs.buskill.in)

       • Official BusKill Project Website (https://buskill.in)

Synopsis

       buskill [options]

See Also