FBI and FCC issue warnings about public USB charging stations

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Both the FBI and the FCC issued warnings in the last week or so, just reminding
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people, hey, don't just willy-nilly plug your iPhone into, or Android phone
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into a charging station when you're at the airport or a mall or whatever
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This is from the FCC. They said, cybersecurity experts warn that bad actors can load malware onto
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public USB charging stations to maliciously access electronic devices while they're being charged
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So we put together a thing about, you know, ways that you can avoid having
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this problem, right? And one of the main things, and this may not be a giant problem for iPhone
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because one of the first things that happens is like, you know, you plug your
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phone in and you might see this pop-up that says, if it's trying to gain access
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to your thing, as opposed to just powered up, you'll see a pop-up, you know, that says basically, do you want to trust this computer

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