How can a public USB charging station be manipulated by criminals to put a virus on my phone?
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It would require a screwup (or intentional malfeasance) on the part of the designers of the public power station. Which is not all that unlikely, unfortunately.
A properly designed public charging station will not allow a data connection between the devices. They should all be airgapped from a data standpoint. But the usb standard does allow for data transfer so… it’s perfectly possible to build one that tries to talk to your device, or allows the various devices to talk to one another.
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