What would everyone here think of a device which was inserted into a USB slot 
on an Air or Iphone and, when yanked out, would completely disable the computer?

I owned a stun gun and it had a wrist lanyard which was attached to a part of 
the gun.  IF the gun was yanked from your hands, the part would come out of the 
back, causing the weapon to be completely inoperative.

My idea was if a wrist lanyard were attached to a USB device which was an 
encrypted key to your portable computing device, without which a password was 
necessary to restore it, were yanked from the computing device via it being 
snatched from you, the device would go dead.  You'd still lose it, but short of 
charging the case of the device itself and zapping the grabber (wouldn't work), 
this would at least render the device useless until they either got the USB key 
from the lanyard around your wrist or the password to restore it.  I'm curious 
whether anyone would use such a gadget, or whether the risks outweigh the 
benefits.


 • Mark BurningHawk Baxter
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