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spiralpolitik
on Feb 14, 2012
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Utopia: USB power sockets on every wall
Ignore the power issues and think about the security issues. Would you give some random plug in the wall hardware access to your smartphone along the same cable that data goes?
(See
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-secu...
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bhousel
on Feb 14, 2012
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One could easily make "charge only" USB cables with the data pins disconnected. Or a passthrough dongle which does that.
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