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Without ruining the main use case - is there some way to sterilize or nuke things like a basic cell phone charger when it should have no radio-frequency capabil
by r00fus 7y ago
Without ruining the main use case - is there some way to sterilize or nuke things like a basic cell phone charger when it should have no radio-frequency capability?
- Avamander 7y ago> is there some way to sterilize or nuke things like a basic cell phone charger when it should have no radio-frequency capability? If you want Fast Charging, short circuit protection or similar, then no, it has to have ICs and those could do a lot of things that are hard to detect.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoYou have to open it up and inspect the hardware.
- trevyn 7y agoIncluding de-capping the chips and having a look at the floorplans.
- RL_Quine 7y agoNope. Even USB cables now have active electronics and a microprocessor in them.
- outworlder 7y agoBatteries too.
- BubRoss 7y agoThey don't have to. USB is four wires.
- yoz-y 7y agoMy guess would be no, as even the basic use case of a modern charger (for example) requires a functioning computer. Shielding is only a temporary option too because the device could just buffer the data and wait for the opportunity to send. My guess is, if there is a proof of malicious act, the governments should severely punish the originating company. To act as a deterrent, i.e.: "you can get away with this exactly once".
- thesmok 7y agoShielding would not be effective because the device could just use mains wiring as antenna.