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Re:USB Killer by riffraff on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @07:40AM (#9177158)
I have done that, when I was young and stupid and didn't have a UK compatible plug. I have also witnessed a many people doing it.

You can also trick it by doing a sort of dance with te plug where you partially force in the ground, then one live, then you spin it and put the other one in.

The day we have USB wall sockets can't come soon enough.

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Re:USB Killer by coldpie on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:55AM (#9177437)
Eh, USB carries data, not just power. I don't trust any USB socket that I don't control.
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Re:USB Killer by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:46AM (#9177658)
Use a charge-only cable.
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Re:USB Killer by AnonymousPlanet on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @09:59AM (#9177725)
I would have to tell my phone not to believe everything some house computer (on Earth or Bespin) tells it. At least with USB, my phone is less likely to mistake the power plug for the data plug, because it's all the same.
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