[acdha]

There are two things to remember: one is that “juice jacking” is an urban legend hyped up by gullible police departments since the 2000s which just doesn’t happen in real life. Making computing clunkier for everyone doesn’t make any more sense than it does to put roofs over the keyboards in your server room to stop Tom Cruise from rappelling down from the ceiling.

Second, the same risk applies to every other device. Even if we eliminated charger docks and smart charging, we’d still have keyboards, mice, network adapters, storage, MFA tokens, etc. to worry about and that’s why your computer doesn’t blindly trust every device you connect any more. In 2004 you probably could have caused problems by presenting as a storage device with an auto run installer but now all you’re going to get are prompts.

[dragonwriter]

> There are two things to remember: one is that “juice jacking” is an urban legend hyped up by gullible police departments since the 2000s which just doesn’t happen in real life.

Its kind of like the magic aura-of-intoxication of fentanyl, only juice jacking is a technically possible and demonstrated capability that approximately never happens in the wild, while magic fentanyl actually is sheer fantasy. But both propagate as ideas by the same mechanism.