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A comment on Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables.

Re:Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables by KMnO4 on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:59AM (#27342691)
> The cables were not designed to attack iPhones, but the Macs and other computers they’re plugged into for a charge or a sync.

This makes much more sense. iPhones are mostly protected from malicious USB cables by requiring you to “trust” any new connection.

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Re:Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables by 0xbeefbeefbeef on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:22AM (#27342846)
Except for the fact that you can jailbreak an iPhone by exploiting the USB stack: https://iokit.racing/oneweirdtrick.pdf
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Re:Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables by ryanlol on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:03AM (#27344192)
Do you normally keep your phone in the DFU state?
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Re:Why You Should Stop Using Other People’s iPhone Cables by jbuhbjlnjbn on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:27AM (#27342877)
Oh yeah, so there is an easy and cheap remedy, let computers handle cable data connections the same as smartphones, asking for consent.

That would mitigate the danger for charging with an 'unknown cable'. But when you actually want to use it for data, the issue will remain.

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