Q WILL TIMSBURY, ISLE OF MAN
I’m worried about public USB ports. Can I get a USB condom?
Savvy question. You get a big clap from Guru. Trusting anything to a public USB port is a big risk. You cannot necessarily rough the port up to check for potential naughtiness like you might if you were hunting for a credit card skimmer. You’ve just got to trust that someone hasn’t stuck something nefarious on it along the line, whether it’s designed to swallow up your data and ship it off to some poor individual in the Far East for processing, or install malware onto that phone you’ve been waving away the security updates for. Is it likely? No, not at
