How can a public USB charging station be manipulated by criminals to put a virus on my phone?
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All these answers are good but tbh there’s even a simpler scenario: For example, when I plug my phone into my computer, the computer can access the phone’s filesystem when the phone is unlocked; I can use this to do things like put music or other files on the phone. I don’t remember if it asked for permission the first time it did it (I don’t *think* it did), but it certainly hasn’t asked for permission since. It seems like your phone will assume that if you are unlocked while connected to a charger it means you’re giving the other end of the cable permission to access data. In that case, the other end could theoretically copy everything present on your phone and use it for whatever purposes they may want.
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