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by dragonwriter 553 days ago
> 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.