Points taken from article:

  • Android 15 is adding a built-in mechanism to protect your device from “juice jacking” attacks.
  • Charging will be allowed when lockdown mode is enabled in Android 15, but USB data access will not.
  • Juice jacking is a largely theoretical problem you don’t really need to worry about, but it’s still nice that Android will protect you against it.
  • scrion@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not necessarily, if you find an exploit that allows you to install malware without user interaction, Mactans famously did that for an older iOS version.

    I’d still argue that making good use of such an exploit and rolling out the necessary, physical infrastructure does not have a great cost/reward ratio.

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      5 months ago

      Just put up a free charging station or an outlet with a USB port in a hotel and you got yourself free USB connections to phones.

      I can never bring myself to connect to those things.

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        5 months ago

        Sure. But the number of targets you could acquire there is miniscule compared to simpler delivery mechanisms, via a malicious app download, for example, and you have larger costs (hardware) and added risks, e. g. being captured on CCTV during installation.

        That’s why I said, the cost/reward ratio is really off.

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      5 months ago

      Ios is funnily enough more prone to such attacks as its always the same chipset with always the same OS. Android in comparison has hundreds of different OS versions and many different chipsets.