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I'd gladly exchange Magsafe for generic interchangeable chargers. One charger for a laptop, tablet, smartphone and e-reader, and provided as a matter of course
by Brakenshire 11y ago
I'd gladly exchange Magsafe for generic interchangeable chargers. One charger for a laptop, tablet, smartphone and e-reader, and provided as a matter of course in cafes, libraries, trains, workplaces etc would be superb.
- eropple 11y agoI under no circumstances want my probably-not-very-secure peripheral bus accessed by things provided by a matter of course in cafes, libraries, etc. Magsafe is stupid and that is fine by me. This is also why I carry my own USB adapters rather than relying on others', and have a USB condom (they call them SyncStop now, I think, but that one is big and weird) in my wallet just in case.
- kens 11y agoMagsafe actually isn't stupid - there's bidirectional communication with the laptop over the data pin in the middle of the connector, using the 1-Wire protocol. The protocol is probably simple enough to have no security issues, but now I wonder if a malicious connector could carry out an attack (buffer overflow, bad data, etc). Some security engineer might want to investigate this...
- eropple 11y agoStupid has degrees. I'm a lot more confident in the ability to secure Magsafe than something that has to support such functionally open things as Alternate Mode.