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Wow! Is the trick that we now have powerful microcomputers small enough to fit into a USB plug? That's pretty incredible technology. How many years ago did this become possible? My IT security training is dated, I am aware of the risks of plugging in a random USB key, but just a cable from a helpful "coworker"? Yikes.
Wow! Is the trick that we now have powerful microcomputers small enough to fit into a USB plug? That's pretty incredible technology. How many years ago did this become possible? My IT security training is dated, I am aware of the risks of plugging in a random USB key, but just a cable from a helpful "coworker"? Yikes.
That level of miniaturization is far older than Apple's removal of the iPhone headphone jack in 2016, but the related lightning-to-audio jack dongle had a microcontroller with a DAC inside that you'd never think existed due to the form factor.
That's why when you use the iPhone HDMI adapter, everything looks a little bit compressed. Because it is.
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I'm in San Francisco, so not Seattle, but cars get broken into for the sport of it by this point. A friend's had her window broken and used, gross dog leashes and an old Nokia charger stolen. The lost hours of work to replace the window was the real cost to her dog walking business.
Just park with your windows open if there's nothing they can really take. Repairing the window isn't with the cost or the time.
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 been making, collecting, and testing toys like this for more than a decade.
It is a race to the bottom on price now.
Your best defense for USB code execution attacks is use Linux with USBGuard or QubesOS with the default USB quarantine VM.
Windows and Mac users are currently easy targets. I don't know of any good defenses there.
Took me a moment to realise, but this is for keyboards, not iPhones. I don't think (?) anybody can access anything from an iPhone using an evil cable (using publicly-known attacks).
I’m kind of surprised that Apple doesn’t encrypt keystrokes between its keyboards and the host machine, given than they have the capability to enable the keyboard to authenticate the host using PKI. Maybe this is on their todo list.
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I'm in San Francisco, so not Seattle, but cars get broken into for the sport of it by this point. A friend's had her window broken and used, gross dog leashes and an old Nokia charger stolen. The lost hours of work to replace the window was the real cost to her dog walking business.
Just park with your windows open if there's nothing they can really take. Repairing the window isn't with the cost or the time.
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That level of miniaturization is far older than Apple's removal of the iPhone headphone jack in 2016, but the related lightning-to-audio jack dongle had a microcontroller with a DAC inside that you'd never think existed due to the form factor.
Just for reference, here are a couple breakdowns of how impressive the iPhone headphone jack is. It is impressive how good it is and how tiny it is. https://www.ifixit.com/News/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardow... https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...
Couldn't find this information. If yes, you can just switch someones cable in his bag and attack him with that. We need to be very careful in the future with our cables...