Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables
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#2Sigh. Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible with other devices in the name of security ... Security is highly desired. But as a consumer the incompatibilities and the impossible-to-repair part is highly irksome. As is the price-gauging.
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#3> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync.
This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.
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#4> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync. This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.
Except for the fact that you can jailbreak an iPhone by exploiting the USB stack: https://iokit.racing/oneweirdtrick.pdf
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#5> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync. This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.
Oh yeah, so there is an easy and cheap remedy, let computers handle cable data connections the same as smartphones, asking for consent.
That would mitigate the danger for charging with an 'unknown cable'. But when you actually want to use it for data, the issue will remain.
Re: Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables
#6Sigh. Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible with other devices in the name of security ... Security is highly desired. But as a consumer the incompatibilities and the impossible-to-repair part is highly irksome. As is the price-gauging.
This is an unfortunate situation - there is a legitimate argument to be made for quality accessories, safety (of melting, burning, frying ports) and security, but the flipside is, most OEMs are shameless in their ways of overcharging you for that (especially Apple).
Re: Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables
#7Sigh. Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible with other devices in the name of security ... Security is highly desired. But as a consumer the incompatibilities and the impossible-to-repair part is highly irksome. As is the price-gauging.
> Apple just got another excuse to make its charging and data cable even more incompatible ... (emphasis mine)
Not sure where you are going here. Apple’s USB C cables and chargers are ordinary, standards-compliant devices.
They do still have lightning devices (predating Type C), but the other end of those are standard USB type A and type C connections. Type C is the upgrade path; my Mac and iPad use them.
I’m sure when they switch their phones to type c there will be much anguish about the “incompatibility” — just as when they introduced the USB-based iMac in 1998!
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#8I seem to remember wireless charging with magnetic induction. Why did this never become the norm?
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#9> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync. This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.
Except for the fact that you can jailbreak an iPhone by exploiting the USB stack: https://iokit.racing/oneweirdtrick.pdf
Do you normally keep your phone in the DFU state?
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#10Possibly related: anyone got a link to where I can buy a power-only (microUSB|UCB-C|Lightning) cable with data leads removed? Searching Amazon for something like this doesn't appear to be a useful exercise.