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Re:Wireless Charging Power Side-Channel Attacks by bayindirh on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:17AM (#28511099)
A wireless charger has no data transfer capability yet, so "no" for now. However if a USB port shows any sign of data transfer capability, it's blocked until you trust it.

Power starvation / observation attacks are passive attacks in a sense. They get their results by observing only.

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Re:Wireless Charging Power Side-Channel Attacks by atatatat on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:35PM (#28519540)
> A wireless charger has no data transfer capability yet

..but...the article

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Re:Wireless Charging Power Side-Channel Attacks by bayindirh on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:02AM (#28520839)
The article is about a side-channel attack, where you don't transfer any data, but just observe something (in this case power draw from a wireless charger) to get some information.

In these types of attacks, you don't transfer any actual information, but guess something from observation.

There are more exotic attacks [0][1] which exploit the heat computers generate to exfiltrate data or time power starvation attacks.

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3133956.3133994 [1]: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/stealing-data-computers-using-...

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