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What might be most interesting about the USB3 connector will be the opportunity for compromising such machines. People might be cautious about plugging in unkno
by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
What might be most interesting about the USB3 connector will be the opportunity for compromising such machines. People might be cautious about plugging in unknown or unexpected hardware and flash drives to their machines, etc, but they'll always recognise what looks like a charger and won't think for a minute that it might be doing anything other than supplying power.
Could be very interesting, especially in office locations where charger sharing goes on. Or even at home, how do you know that /your/ charger isn't the special version that not only powers the MacBook while also appearing as a bus device that's backdooring your machine and radiating your secrets back over your mains cables to an adversary?
Lots and lots of fun to be had there.
- mikhailt 12y agoYou can say the same thing about any other port, USB 3 is not the exception. There's a big bug with both Firewall and TB that can bypass the security and infect the firmwares and so on.