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worthless-trash on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI is warning people against using public phone-c...

Android asks me if I want to have a device to allow access, This probably prevents attacks against the upper layer protocols. Is the risk vector here the USB stack itself?

I think its possible to disable the USB 'protocol' in Linux, but it would require advanced permissions on android, which probably doesn't work out of the box, with IOS who knows or cares.

codethief on April 13, 2023 [–]

> Is the risk vector here the USB stack itself?

Yes, exactly. There are some comments here in the thread that discuss this in detail.

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