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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by rsync on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:49PM (#38210144)
Agreed, although I use a “usb condom” for convenience…
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by giantg2 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:27PM (#38210743)
What's the technical term for those? (I'm afraid to search for that at work haha)
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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by x86x87 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:33PM (#38210829)
Usb power-only or charge only cable.

You can create one by severing the data lines in a normal usb cable

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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by JohnFen on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:31PM (#38210792)
You can find them with the term "USB data blocker". You might have to add "dongle" onto that.
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