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).
Why?
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.
You can put shit inside the connector.
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.
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To make it even more confusing, some thumb drives can also enter keystrokes like a keyboard.