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Airport USB chargers probably won’t hack your phone.
I’ve been hearing this as received wisdom for years: never plug your phone into the USB charging ports at hotels or airports, because hackers will hijack it. But an Ars Technica deep dive concludes that while this is possible, it’s very complicated — and for the average person, not much of a threat.
“At a high level, if nobody can point to a real-world example of it actually happening in public spaces, then it’s not something that is worth stressing about for the general public,” Mike Grover, a researcher who designs offensive hacking tools and does offensive hacking research for large companies, said.
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