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> It's long past time that USB security is taken seriously.

You mean, before we started using USB for charging...?

It wouldn't be hard at all to make a convincing looking power adapter with something like PoisonTap baked in.



You can protect both devices from each other with a USB condom [1] which only connects the power pins. This should be the solution for trying to charge from untrusted slots, or for when an untrusted device wants to charge from you.

[1] http://syncstop.com/#faq-original


Know of any USB condoms that can filter for device types? Given BAD USB type of exploits there really no easy way for me to know that when I stuck my USB stick in the printer at the library it wasn't reprogrammed to be a keyboard or something else and when I then go plug it into my computer it now powns my computer




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