Travel dilemmas: Those free, innocent-looking USB charging ports could rob you blind
by Catharine Hamm, Los Angeles Times
Dec 02, 2019
3 minutes
It's called "juice jacking," which may sound as innocuous as a toddler ripping the sippy cup out of a playmate's hands, but this is very much a grownup problem, unless your kid is already using a cellphone.
Juice jacking is the devious practice by which bad guys hijack a public USB charging port and use it to steal information from your phone or tablet.
Those same ports you're relieved to find when your electronic device is low
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