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Cables with chipsets in them... the possibilities for data exfiltration are endless.
And commercially available for cheap. https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable This cable has a built in keylogger and Wifi among other things.
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It does meter the power being used though. It logs power usage and can measure resistance. You are 100% right that actual cable testers are much more capable but wouldn't that be enough to know if the cable can handle the wattage that it advertises? Wouldn't a bad cable have high resistance, or missing emarker tags (they can lie about this though) ? For data transfer that wouldn't be a good metric though, so again yo…
Well, it's definitely very useful device and it also seems to have cable resistance which is rare in this. I had some other FNRSI devices and they generally feel pretty solid, if UI/UX crippled a bit. And maybe it won't just stop working like the one I bought did... Which makes me sad because it was somewhat of an unique product because outside of the "chinese USB tester functions" (paging thru what negotiation succe…
(Sidenote, this pattern is so common with AliExpress: very very good hardware but janky software. But God do I like the hardware since it seems like even the most niche, non mainstream stuff still see steady innovation and improvement. None of that 10 year old hardware that used to be common for almost all hobby tier niches haha.)
I wish these were more widely available: https://caberqu.com/home/20-42-c2c-caberqu-746052578813.html... I have one from the kickstarter, and every new USB-C cable gets tested and labeled. Most are USB 2.0. A few will have the power delivery pins. It's such a crapshoot on any shopping site. It should be mandatory that these cables are correctly spec'd and labeled.
5w
10w
15w
20w
...
480mbps
5gbps
10gbps
20gbps
40gbps
USB2
USB3.0
USB3.1
USB3.2 gen 1
USB3.2 gen 2
Thunderbolt 3
Thunderbolt 4
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Anker, Cable Matters, Spigen, Satechi, Belkin, CalDigit, StarTech.com, OWC, Wavlink, UGreen, or literally any brand anyone has ever heard of would be nice.
Not a fan of GALKZ or FRELP? Gotta love those random 5 letter “brands” amazon is covered in these days.
Even brands I trust more so do this awful keyword stuffing, example: the first result on my amazon for "USB-C":
> Anker USB C Charger Cable (6ft 100W, 2Pack), USB 2.0 Type C Fast Charging Cable for iPhone 15 / 15Pro / 15Plus / 15ProMax MacBook Pro 2020, iPad Pro 2020, iPad Air 4, Samsung Galaxy S23+/S23 Ultra
It's not quite as egregious as some of the titles that use broken english but it's something...
Speaking of USB-C 10 Gbit/s cables, I've noticed something odd about the iPhone 15 Pro: I have a USB-C cable that has been yielding 10 Gbit/s speeds (i.e. USB 3 Gen 2x1 or possibly but very unlikely 1x2) when used at my Mac with various devices (mostly SSDs). However, that same cable only gets USB 2 speeds when connecting the iPhone to my Mac. The iPhone itself also seems to only get USB 2 speeds using the SSD and th…
There is no such thing as a compliant USB A to USB C adapter and some combination may fry your device. https://hackaday.com/2022/12/27/all-about-usb-c-illegal-adap...
It doesnt say USB A female to USB C male is noncompliant. These are reasonably common and I had one included with both my current laptop and my current smartphone, for example.
I love the fact they call the lightening cable an “11 year reign”. There’s a part of Apple that capitalized on hidden reservoirs of tech and talent. Then there’s a part of Apple capitalizes on its own reputation and history. Lightening cable feels newton era.
"lightening" as in pocket-lightening?
I love the fact they call the lightening cable an “11 year reign”. There’s a part of Apple that capitalized on hidden reservoirs of tech and talent. Then there’s a part of Apple capitalizes on its own reputation and history. Lightening cable feels newton era.
"lightening" as in pocket-lightening?
I love the fact they call the lightening cable an “11 year reign”. There’s a part of Apple that capitalized on hidden reservoirs of tech and talent. Then there’s a part of Apple capitalizes on its own reputation and history. Lightening cable feels newton era.
"lightening" as in pocket-lightening?
I love the fact they call the lightening cable an “11 year reign”. There’s a part of Apple that capitalized on hidden reservoirs of tech and talent. Then there’s a part of Apple capitalizes on its own reputation and history. Lightening cable feels newton era.
"lightening" as in pocket-lightening?
“ Another curiosity hidden in the circuit board is this wiggle on one of the traces. It contains a tiny detour to make sure it’s the same length as its paired trace, which is especially important when dealing with extra-high-speed data transmission.” A wiggle that small is adding picosecond delays. I’m surprised that’s necessary. Cool!