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Can somebody recommend good charging cables with the data lanes disabled? Would put my mind at ease when I'm traveling.
One thing I've heard other comments mention here is a USB condom (USB data blocker). It's just a male to female adapter with only the power lines patched through, not data lines.
I wonder what happens if you fly with one of these.
I would expect nothing, because the security we put ourselves through is nowhere close to sophisticated enough to notice.
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Why is the NSA so good at coming up with sweet codenames for things? I swear it's someone's full time job there.
IIRC the funny thing is, the system that provides the codenames is random in order for the system to not leak information about what the code name is for. But since there's no limit to how many times you can request a code name, the system is being abused and users try until they get a good one.
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When USB came out I was working in the defence sector. We closed the vector off with cages for the PCs with tied looms under desks, epoxy in all the holes we didn’t want people to use and with threat of being in deep shit.
My school had a way to keep peripherals from wandering off, but if all you need to do is swap the cables then I’m not sure that would still work. Wrapping the cables into a wiring loom makes that process slower, assuming the loom is complicated enough. Did you ever use heat shrink? Or locking cable ties? What the school did was run a steel cable behind the desks, then put a loop of the mouse chord through a steel was…
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Not sure about GPS but it includes remote access via WiFi, and some of the cables on offer quote "Long Range WiFi (2 KM+)"
Why can't all my devices have 2km WiFi‽
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Not sure about GPS but it includes remote access via WiFi, and some of the cables on offer quote "Long Range WiFi (2 KM+)"
Why can't all my devices have 2km WiFi‽
See also: C-to-C charger cables with Bluetooth remote activated dual payloads: https://sneaktechnology.com/product/usbninja-custom-type-c-t... I easily modified mine to mimmic Apple Keyboard USB IDs to avoid notifications. Works great! Cellular GPS tracking car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Locator-Professional-Listenin... Cellular GPS tracking USB charger cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124 I have…
With growing car theft in the US I've been curious about implanting GPS trackers on my own older enthusiast vehicles. There appears to be many options on Amazon but I can't bring myself to trust any of them. Has anyone here gone down that road before?
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Lightning cables are expensive, and Apple is definitely encouraging car theft by not including them in the box anymore. edit: this was a joke and it got appropriately downvoted. I regret nothing.
A cable that costs $20 - $30 retail NEW doesn't seem worth risking jail time over.
Can somebody recommend good charging cables with the data lanes disabled? Would put my mind at ease when I'm traveling.
0: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/3-in-1-cable-led-ligh...