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Would this be difficult to actually put together? Asking as a mostly casual user of technology and of course for purely academic purposes.
Depends if the phone is supposed to still work.
If you just take an empty shell it shouldn't be hard at all to put an USB killer inside.
If you want to keep a functional phone, that's very difficult. You'd likely have to reduce the size of the battery by half to free some space and then design a custom USB killer to fit into that space. And then you need some kind of switch to switch between regular USB usage and USB killer mode. Or you just hard-wire it to USB killer only and charge your phone exclusively with wireless charging.
You have piqued my curiosity. I was imagining a non-functioning device with the sole purpose of hampering USB/devices. Like if I were to, conduct research, I would probably just have the insides filled with sand or something to give it heft or the illusion of being a real phone.
Honestly, just pack something with a USB port, and no descriptor. No labels, no nothing. Hell, make it out of a little hobby box container and put a port on it. Done.
Some dumb ass will plug it in to see what it is.
Remember, police have a maximum intelligence limit for hiring, or so its rumored, and if you've dealt with many cops, well.... seems pretty fair.
Intelligent people ask questions. Fascism doesn't like people asking questions.
Should leave some spicy USB devices near ICE buildings