Use USBKill on your Mac and it will guarantee that your data cannot be stolen through a USB port

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If you are constantly looking for options that help you have the content on your Mac more protected, today we are going to talk a little about the USBKill project developed by a programmer who calls himself «hephaestos». The fact is that the project he proposes is responsible for being aware of everyone and each of the USB ports of your computer to act accordingly in the event of any action occurring. 

USBKill It is therefore a utility in the form of a script that searches for the activity carried out in the USB ports of a computer or Mac, in any case, force shutdown the Mac.

For the USBKill script to work the Mac must be previously protected using FileVault As you know, it is in charge of encrypting the existing information on the Mac using a password. As USBKill induces a forced shutdown of the Mac, the information would later be protected by the FileVault protocol.

For now the project is not completely outlined and right now we only know some of the commands that this developer will use in the final application. Note that OS X users will need to install the port of isusb together with python3 using brew.


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  1.   Monse said

    Hello, can you help me.
    My macbook pro every time I turn it on, it asks me for a keychain password for different apps.
    It's only when I turn it on, and it's very annoying.