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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by MuffinFlavored on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:46PM (#20689519)
How would the board in the cable know what WiFi to connect to, and how would it run shell commands via USB?
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Re:Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables Will Hijack Your Co... by eridius on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:24AM (#20693374)
If you know the wifi environment of your intended victim, you could pre-configure it with the network in question.
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