Theoretically it's fine, and there is no way to install malicious software through a charging cable. You would have to accept a data connection in your phone, and then accept whatever the connection tries to do. You would have to tap through several prompts to allow anything to happen.
But there are bugs sometimes, where there are ways around that. The NSA and CIA keep track of all of the ones that are discovered, and have teams of people who just look for new ones all day long and keep them secret so they don't get fixed till someone who isn't malicious finds them.
There aren't any that are publicly known, and there haven't been any for a long time, but you never really know for sure. I think it's more likely than not that there is no exploit in charging cables that doesn't require the user to accept a data connection from the cable.
Theoretically it's fine, and there is no way to install malicious software through a charging cable. You would have to accept a data connection in your phone, and then accept whatever the connection tries to do. You would have to tap through several prompts to allow anything to happen.
But there are bugs sometimes, where there are ways around that. The NSA and CIA keep track of all of the ones that are discovered, and have teams of people who just look for new ones all day long and keep them secret so they don't get fixed till someone who isn't malicious finds them.
There aren't any that are publicly known, and there haven't been any for a long time, but you never really know for sure. I think it's more likely than not that there is no exploit in charging cables that doesn't require the user to accept a data connection from the cable.
That first sentence is very false.
Maybe not through official means/channels but physical access is the ground floor of pwn towers.