The Dangers of USB Killers: A Test of Modern Smartphones

As we all know, smartphones have become an integral part of our daily lives. But what happens when we're faced with a device that can potentially harm them? In this article, we'll be testing the effectiveness of USB killers on various popular smartphones.

The first test subject was the iPhone. We plugged in a standard USB charger to see if it would cause any damage. However, as we expected, there were no adverse effects. The camera lens showed some signs of burn-in, but that's about it. The image quality remained intact, and it didn't even affect the phone's performance.

Next up was the Nokia 6. We tried using a USB killer adapter to see if we could cause any damage. However, despite multiple attempts, nothing happened. It seems like the Nokia 6 is invulnerable to the USB killer. We also tested it with a regular USB charger and found that it still worked perfectly.

The real test was reserved for the Nintendo 3DS, but unfortunately, I couldn't proceed with this part of the experiment as it contained a warning about shining light into someone's eye.

Moving on, we decided to try our luck with the Nokia 3310. We plugged in a standard USB charger and found that it didn't charge anything. However, when we tried using a reverse USB adapter, it surprisingly started charging. But more importantly, we then tried using a USB killer adapter to see if we could kill the phone. Unfortunately, it still wouldn't die.

The Nokia 6 was next on our list. We plugged in the USB killer and saw that it had no effect on the device. It continued to work normally, and even restarted when we removed the adapter. This is quite surprising, as we were expecting some damage.

Finally, we moved on to the iPhone. As before, we used a standard USB charger with a reverse polarity adapter to see if we could cause any harm. But this time, something unexpected happened - it worked! The phone was killed by the USB killer, and it even rebooted afterwards. This is quite impressive, especially considering that our first test subject failed.

The last device on our list was the Samsung Galaxy S8. We plugged in a standard USB charger with capacitors 1.5 times more powerful than those used in previous devices. However, to our surprise, it didn't kill the phone. The phone even continued to charge normally when plugged in. This is quite surprising, especially considering that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was prone to overheating and catching fire.

In conclusion, we can see that some smartphones are more resistant to USB killers than others. While devices like iPhones, Nokia 6s, and other lower-end Android phones seem to be vulnerable to damage from these adapters, higher-end brands like Samsung have managed to protect their devices from such attacks. It's not just about the technology; it's also about marketing and branding.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys and it's that time again USB killer time let's take a look at how the Samsung Galaxy S8 fares against a USB killer but not just the usual one we've been doing the tests with an allnew version 3.0 that's 1.5 times more powerful and two times faster at the voltage surges that it sends to your phone so this is the latest and greatest in phone technology but does it have an over voltage protection for the actual USB port I'm super curious been wanting to find this out for the longest time so we've killed phones one oh attempted cars we've done so many things with the USB killer even consoles one oh but how about the latest phone anyways I've got the USB killer 3.0 right here I haven't even looked at it yet but let's go ahead and do that and it does come with a nice new uh adapter set that bypasses security on most phones so this says USB killer 2.0 I'm not sure if they didn't update the packaging but I'm hoping they sent me a 3.0 so this is the adapter set not the actual USB killer this is basically going to bypass the security on iPhone so I'm actually going to attempt to do this test again on an iPhone 7 plus because in the earlier video it didn't actually do anything to it except kill the lightning Port this time it should actually kill the phone hopefully all right so here she is now basically the adapters that it comes with allow you to bypass any security dirty that the phone may have and get a spark immediately through it so I'm going to plug it into the tester shield and we're going to have some fun today see what can affect the galaxies and what is protected I'm going to try my laser against it my EMP just have some electronic torture here anyways let's plug into the USBC adapter included in here so it's just this little adapter kit you plug this into and basically this will plug into the phone and uh yeah let's go ahead and see what happens so into the brand new Galaxy S8 hoping to get some sort of spark here might be a little hard to see but here we go 3 two 1 oh wow that is powerful this thing can create quite to the spark that's amazing wow holy crap this thing is powerful okay so I'm assuming this will do some proper damage anyways before I get into that let's have some fun with the EMP and Laser and uh see what it can do to this guy in case you guys don't remember this creates an electromagnetic field that interferes with the phone it can really screw up the display and does a lot of damage all right so I just want to demo something for you guys this is an iPhone 5s and an EMP what it'll do to it so just like that it really screws with the display and it can wash it out do some crazy things to it so uh let's get an iPhone 7 plus in here see what it'll do to that all right as you can see it starts ghosting it flipped the screen so you've got the status bar on the bottom now uh kind of funny so the newer phones are still affected by it yeah you got a lot of ghosting in there which is interesting all right and uh the Samsung Galaxy S8 clone just uh out of curiosity to see if any does anything to this here's my Irish scanning by the way all right oh it does yeah it does screw with it but nothing lasting like on the iPhones even surprisingly uh lastly the Nokia 6 it's a bit battered and shattered from my drop test but can I do anything to it the answer is it's a Nokia not really so hard to see but really nothing there all right here it is Moment of Truth can the Galaxy withstand an EMP oh it flickers let's try the back oh surprisingly not much it withstood that very well compared to the iPhone so seems to be EMP proof is it laser proof let's shine that laser into the camera see what happens this is the Arctic laser world's most powerful handheld laser that's sold in stores so beginning to record here let's see what the Galaxy sees before it dies by laser all right with the strongest mode enabled here it is absolutely blinding let's shine it in this camera lens all right it is a burning laser by the way so it will light anything up on fire that you put it towards oh we got a nice big spot in there opt image stabilization is still working pretty good though let's keep going here so this is extremely d dangerous as you can see if it can do this kind of damage to a camera lens imagine that shining in your eye but oh man look at that burn in the camera completely this is at least more visible than on the iPhone the iPhone created all these crazy lines right away this one just seems to be melting something in there okay let's keep going just a couple more seconds here and I really don't want to light this thing on fire inside though can see like some scarring in there ouch check that out that filter right there so surprisingly still pretty capable despite all of that even and almost okay so I think that's it with the laser obviously it is affected there that's quite the damage I'm going to salvage this video and let's move on to the USB killer all right so USB killer let's try it on the Nokia 6 see if we can put it out of its misery here as it seems to be wanting to die okay with the USB killer adapter set in there pluck it in here and see if I can get a spark going this isn't on USBC so I don't know how strong it would be actually no spark whatsoever so let's just try and plug it in straight into the USB killer all right in three two one oh surprisingly nothing so I don't think the Nokia 6 is capable of giving a power output as the USB killer doesn't seem to be doing anything here okay Nokia 6 is invulnerable what about the Nokia 3310 I know I know how am I going to plug that in there but check this out a USB charging cable the only one I could find that would fit the Nokia a reverse USB so USB it's USB hopefully that way we can get something to happen here I don't know guys I had to know if the USB would work on the noia so plugging this into this and the correct charging cable I believe is okay found it all right so let's plug in the USB killer see if it does anything I'm more than positive this thing isn't capable of outputting any sort of charge to power the USB killer but here we go in three two one ah nothing like Nokia 6 Nokia 3310 is invulnerable to the USB killer probably because it doesn't output any power all right and versus iPhone let's see if we can get through the adapter any sort of charge here oh yes it does bypass that so assuming it bypasses it I can plug the USB killer in right now and have it kill this iPhone so let's do just that finally the day has come for this thing to die via USB killer in three 2 1 oh I hear that you hear that it did like several bursts here and it's keeping on tick tick tick nothing though huh I saw a video where someone plugged this in though and it did kill it so I'm a little confused there nothing now well the home button doesn't work because of this but the ticking did stop let's try once again yeah I think that stops I'm going to restart this thing and see what happened and I've got power so I think this thing might not even boot up because apparently this thing puts it into a boot loop when you plug it in with the new USB killer and the adapter oh but apparently not no SIM card no home button huh looks like this thing has survived yet again so iPhone is USB killer resistant all right how about the Samsung Galaxy S8 I have a really good feeling that this is going to kill it as we got a really really strong spark from it before so all right here we go plugging it into the USBC adapter and with these capacitors that are 1.5 times more powerful here we go three two one oh I heard a click but nothing happened to this guy did Samsung really get smart here that's awesome then again it didn't really do anything to Samsung Galaxy S7 either or the Note 7 so nothing happened here let's see if it still charges power plugged in oh it does charge still huh so Samsung has truly protected its port on the Samsung Galaxy S8 nothing has happened I can plug it in as many times as I want let's plug it in upside down here nothing all righty then that answers a very important question the Samsung Galaxy S eight is resistant to the USB killer and that is absolutely awesome man that's a bit disappointing I wanted some sort of Carnage here but I guess not huh no instant death today all right guys thanks for watching that answered a very important question for me so you guys can go ahead and pick up random USB sticks and plug them into your Galaxy as no harm seems to come from that all right guys thanks for watching peace be sure to check out the other USB killer videos where stuff actually got destroyed on impa man phone manufacturers are just getting too smart nowadayswhat's up guys and it's that time again USB killer time let's take a look at how the Samsung Galaxy S8 fares against a USB killer but not just the usual one we've been doing the tests with an allnew version 3.0 that's 1.5 times more powerful and two times faster at the voltage surges that it sends to your phone so this is the latest and greatest in phone technology but does it have an over voltage protection for the actual USB port I'm super curious been wanting to find this out for the longest time so we've killed phones one oh attempted cars we've done so many things with the USB killer even consoles one oh but how about the latest phone anyways I've got the USB killer 3.0 right here I haven't even looked at it yet but let's go ahead and do that and it does come with a nice new uh adapter set that bypasses security on most phones so this says USB killer 2.0 I'm not sure if they didn't update the packaging but I'm hoping they sent me a 3.0 so this is the adapter set not the actual USB killer this is basically going to bypass the security on iPhone so I'm actually going to attempt to do this test again on an iPhone 7 plus because in the earlier video it didn't actually do anything to it except kill the lightning Port this time it should actually kill the phone hopefully all right so here she is now basically the adapters that it comes with allow you to bypass any security dirty that the phone may have and get a spark immediately through it so I'm going to plug it into the tester shield and we're going to have some fun today see what can affect the galaxies and what is protected I'm going to try my laser against it my EMP just have some electronic torture here anyways let's plug into the USBC adapter included in here so it's just this little adapter kit you plug this into and basically this will plug into the phone and uh yeah let's go ahead and see what happens so into the brand new Galaxy S8 hoping to get some sort of spark here might be a little hard to see but here we go 3 two 1 oh wow that is powerful this thing can create quite to the spark that's amazing wow holy crap this thing is powerful okay so I'm assuming this will do some proper damage anyways before I get into that let's have some fun with the EMP and Laser and uh see what it can do to this guy in case you guys don't remember this creates an electromagnetic field that interferes with the phone it can really screw up the display and does a lot of damage all right so I just want to demo something for you guys this is an iPhone 5s and an EMP what it'll do to it so just like that it really screws with the display and it can wash it out do some crazy things to it so uh let's get an iPhone 7 plus in here see what it'll do to that all right as you can see it starts ghosting it flipped the screen so you've got the status bar on the bottom now uh kind of funny so the newer phones are still affected by it yeah you got a lot of ghosting in there which is interesting all right and uh the Samsung Galaxy S8 clone just uh out of curiosity to see if any does anything to this here's my Irish scanning by the way all right oh it does yeah it does screw with it but nothing lasting like on the iPhones even surprisingly uh lastly the Nokia 6 it's a bit battered and shattered from my drop test but can I do anything to it the answer is it's a Nokia not really so hard to see but really nothing there all right here it is Moment of Truth can the Galaxy withstand an EMP oh it flickers let's try the back oh surprisingly not much it withstood that very well compared to the iPhone so seems to be EMP proof is it laser proof let's shine that laser into the camera see what happens this is the Arctic laser world's most powerful handheld laser that's sold in stores so beginning to record here let's see what the Galaxy sees before it dies by laser all right with the strongest mode enabled here it is absolutely blinding let's shine it in this camera lens all right it is a burning laser by the way so it will light anything up on fire that you put it towards oh we got a nice big spot in there opt image stabilization is still working pretty good though let's keep going here so this is extremely d dangerous as you can see if it can do this kind of damage to a camera lens imagine that shining in your eye but oh man look at that burn in the camera completely this is at least more visible than on the iPhone the iPhone created all these crazy lines right away this one just seems to be melting something in there okay let's keep going just a couple more seconds here and I really don't want to light this thing on fire inside though can see like some scarring in there ouch check that out that filter right there so surprisingly still pretty capable despite all of that even and almost okay so I think that's it with the laser obviously it is affected there that's quite the damage I'm going to salvage this video and let's move on to the USB killer all right so USB killer let's try it on the Nokia 6 see if we can put it out of its misery here as it seems to be wanting to die okay with the USB killer adapter set in there pluck it in here and see if I can get a spark going this isn't on USBC so I don't know how strong it would be actually no spark whatsoever so let's just try and plug it in straight into the USB killer all right in three two one oh surprisingly nothing so I don't think the Nokia 6 is capable of giving a power output as the USB killer doesn't seem to be doing anything here okay Nokia 6 is invulnerable what about the Nokia 3310 I know I know how am I going to plug that in there but check this out a USB charging cable the only one I could find that would fit the Nokia a reverse USB so USB it's USB hopefully that way we can get something to happen here I don't know guys I had to know if the USB would work on the noia so plugging this into this and the correct charging cable I believe is okay found it all right so let's plug in the USB killer see if it does anything I'm more than positive this thing isn't capable of outputting any sort of charge to power the USB killer but here we go in three two one ah nothing like Nokia 6 Nokia 3310 is invulnerable to the USB killer probably because it doesn't output any power all right and versus iPhone let's see if we can get through the adapter any sort of charge here oh yes it does bypass that so assuming it bypasses it I can plug the USB killer in right now and have it kill this iPhone so let's do just that finally the day has come for this thing to die via USB killer in three 2 1 oh I hear that you hear that it did like several bursts here and it's keeping on tick tick tick nothing though huh I saw a video where someone plugged this in though and it did kill it so I'm a little confused there nothing now well the home button doesn't work because of this but the ticking did stop let's try once again yeah I think that stops I'm going to restart this thing and see what happened and I've got power so I think this thing might not even boot up because apparently this thing puts it into a boot loop when you plug it in with the new USB killer and the adapter oh but apparently not no SIM card no home button huh looks like this thing has survived yet again so iPhone is USB killer resistant all right how about the Samsung Galaxy S8 I have a really good feeling that this is going to kill it as we got a really really strong spark from it before so all right here we go plugging it into the USBC adapter and with these capacitors that are 1.5 times more powerful here we go three two one oh I heard a click but nothing happened to this guy did Samsung really get smart here that's awesome then again it didn't really do anything to Samsung Galaxy S7 either or the Note 7 so nothing happened here let's see if it still charges power plugged in oh it does charge still huh so Samsung has truly protected its port on the Samsung Galaxy S8 nothing has happened I can plug it in as many times as I want let's plug it in upside down here nothing all righty then that answers a very important question the Samsung Galaxy S eight is resistant to the USB killer and that is absolutely awesome man that's a bit disappointing I wanted some sort of Carnage here but I guess not huh no instant death today all right guys thanks for watching that answered a very important question for me so you guys can go ahead and pick up random USB sticks and plug them into your Galaxy as no harm seems to come from that all right guys thanks for watching peace be sure to check out the other USB killer videos where stuff actually got destroyed on impa man phone manufacturers are just getting too smart nowadays\n"