Saturday, 14 September 2013
The power receptacle on a smartphone is also a data transfer port, so there’s at least some risk of your bits being snatched while using an unfamiliar USB outlet. This is called juice-jacking, but now there’s a handy prophylactic defense — the USB condom.
The USB condom is a new device
from Int3.cc that blocks a USB port’s data pins while leaving its charge
pins open, denying any potentially harmful requests. The simple board
at its core carries only the current from the outside pins on a USB
connector — which pass along the 5V needed to charge. The middle pins
that would normally transmit data can’t, as there’s no circuitry to do
so on the Condom. You’ll be able to confidently charge in public as long
as you’ve got your USB Condom handy, safe in the knowledge that no
juice jacker is going to mess with your precious device.
The device is not yet available for
purchase, but it will be at some point next week. All we have to go on
is a simple board diagram. It will be a stripped down component — maybe
even a naked board, but it should be complete and functional as
delivered
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Nice Inovation
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