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It appears breakaway mag USB-A connectors are pretty cheap: https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Breaksafe-Magnetic-Breakaway-...

From tidbits in this thread, it sounds like a Veracrypt hidden volume with a distress passphrase, plus a fairly simple dead-man script wouldn't be hard to set up. Something like: kill sensitive processes, drop caches, wipe memory, then panic the kernel.



I checked amazon earlier, and it looks like this thread may have put those things out of stock. Guess a lot of people like the idea!




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