[zzleeper]

Are you kidding? It means that if you go to a coffes hop and plug your laptop, you can become compromised. Sure, random people in a starbucks won't, but it's a boon for industrial espionage!

[centizen]

Just wondering, how does that mean that? The way I understand things that is only possible if you use someone else's compromised power adapter.

I've never seen a coffee shop that supplied power adapters, it's always just a bunch of power outlets. I think your safe for now.

[TheLoneWolfling]

I see plenty of coffee shops with wall sockets with USB ports for charging. And they are typically being used. Same idea here.

[coldtea]

USB-C wall sockets? For charging laptops? I don't think so.

You're worrying for a coffee shop that doesn't even exist.

[TheLoneWolfling]

You could have said the same about USB wall sockets when USB first came out.

[loco5niner]

yet

[sharth]

So... bring your own charger? Does your coffee shop normally provide you a laptop charger?

[scott_karana]

Coffee shops and airports don't provide laptop chargers, but they do sometimes provide USB chargers, which are now the same thing!

[mvid]

Are the power requirements the same? My assumption would be that usb wall chargers wouldn't have the juice to keep your laptop battery at a steady state, let alone charge.

The provided iphone wall charger is 5 watts, the provided apple laptop charger is 60 watts.

[scott_karana]

I suspect airport chargers are more like 1 watt, but the problem is whether end-users will hook their laptops up to the insecure charger, not the efficiency or lack thereof :)