This is going to hack your phone into displaying an article on how it hacked your phone, plus a link to their recruitment website. Because the kind of person who wants to work at the NSA would think that's neat.
If they were trying to use this to actually scoop up data, it'd be unlabeled and at an airport. (By the way, don't use random USB cables you found around. It probably won't be the NSA but it'll be someone.)
An innocuous "Free Charging Station" USB cable can be a data transferring USB cable. Although depending on your phone, you do at least have to typically allow such things when the cable's plugged in but it never hurts to just avoid them when possible as they could also be tampered internally too I suppose.
No difference between a USB cable and a thumb drive. Your device might run some sort of virus off a thumb drive. It shouldn't without you asking, but technology is hacks upon hacks upon ill-advised ideas that sounded good once in the 90s, so it might not. You also might accidentally give your phone permission to run said virus, because you fat-fingered it or are tired (which you probably are in a situation you might encounter an unknown USB charger).
This is going to hack your phone into displaying an article on how it hacked your phone, plus a link to their recruitment website. Because the kind of person who wants to work at the NSA would think that's neat.
If they were trying to use this to actually scoop up data, it'd be unlabeled and at an airport. (By the way, don't use random USB cables you found around. It probably won't be the NSA but it'll be someone.)
Yes, exactly this.
Why?
You can put shit inside the connector.
An innocuous "Free Charging Station" USB cable can be a data transferring USB cable. Although depending on your phone, you do at least have to typically allow such things when the cable's plugged in but it never hurts to just avoid them when possible as they could also be tampered internally too I suppose.
No difference between a USB cable and a thumb drive. Your device might run some sort of virus off a thumb drive. It shouldn't without you asking, but technology is hacks upon hacks upon ill-advised ideas that sounded good once in the 90s, so it might not. You also might accidentally give your phone permission to run said virus, because you fat-fingered it or are tired (which you probably are in a situation you might encounter an unknown USB charger).
What the fuck.
:agony-minion:
To make it even more confusing, some thumb drives can also enter keystrokes like a keyboard.