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Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by dylan604 on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:03PM (#38210368)
most car USB ports are slow charging. my little power port convert provides fast charging. so not only do i get the extra speed, but the assurance that the USB isn't nefarious. which admittedly is probably a bit paranoid, but what if i'm not?!

i didn't even like having my phone data sunk to a my own personal car. it just made no logical sense on why that would be useful, so being me, i just assumed it was for nefarious purposes. people no longer get the benefit of the doubt of being lazy/incompetent. i immediately jump to the situation essentially being an attack vector.

Re:It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call... by JohnFen on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:07PM (#38222264)
> most car USB ports are slow charging

TBH, in this day and age where it's difficult to replace batteries when they wear out, I strongly prefer slow-charging over fast-charging. Fast-charging wears out the batteries more quickly.