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> On Twitter, the Denver FBI office (via CNBC) said that public charging stations in hotels, airports, and shopping centers can be a malware attack vector.



Reading the headline at first, I couldn't help but think of USB dead drops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop

Those might also qualify to some extent as "public USB port", although strange USB devices are obviously a well known security risk at this point (I hope).




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