We’ve all been there. A colleague, friend, or relative hands you a USB flash drive followed by the famous words: "Don’t worry, I formatted it. It’s clean."
If you work in IT or cybersecurity, your internal alarms probably start ringing. For years, my personal policy was simply never to plug untrusted USB drives into my main systems. But sometimes, you just can’t avoid it. Many times, I found myself thinking: what is the most reliable, cheap, and fast way to sanitize a USB device before it ever touches my OS?
That train of thought led to the USB Neutralizer a tiny hardware device built on the incredibly cheap Raspberry Pi Pico and fast enough no matter of the size of the USB drive. In a matter of seconds you have a device which you can safely plug to your System.
⚠️ WARNING: DATA DESTRUCTION ⚠️ Plugging a USB drive into this device will instantly and permanently destroy its partition tables. All files and data will be lost. Do not connect a drive unless you intend to erase it.
