Great @thegrugq quote in the next edition of Between Two Nerds: "Worrying about juice jacking is like worrying about ninjas instead of cardiovascular disease"

I'll be posting that one soon.

@riskybusiness @thegrugq bbut... some media officer in an FBI field office in the middle of nowhere said I should be concerned about Juice Jacking! And it has an alliterative name!

@riskybusiness @thegrugq Apple and Google have both put in some reasonable effort around this.

The threat was more real 5 or so years ago, although the attacks would never scale and required physical presence (within reach of the law).

@riskybusiness @thegrugq it's something to be aware of but not relevant to most people, kind of like the hak5 O.MG cables. If *you specifically* are a target of people willing to spend $150+ for a shot at access, be wary. If not, nobody's going to blow a bunch of money for a *chance* at a probably low success attack on your device.

@riskybusiness @thegrugq @tomatospy I thought the sentence “So the problem with juice jacking is that Big Telecom hasn’t gotten a hold of the PR people” was quite funny because KPN (largest Dutch telco) actually published an article warning about juice jacking earlier this month:

https://www.kpn.com/beleef/blog/wat-is-juice-jacking.htm

For them this is just an opportunity to push their paid antivirus subscription, which undoubtedly would do absolutely nothing against actual juice jacking attacks. 😂

Juice jacking: opladen met nare gevolgen

Met juice jacking kunnen kwaadwillenden gegevens stelen van jouw telefoon of er schadelijke software opzetten terwijl je hem oplaadt. Voorkomen is beter dan genezen. Daarom leggen we uit hoe het werkt en hoe je je ertegen beschermt.

@riskybusiness @thegrugq great…now I’m worried about ninjas.
@riskybusiness @thegrugq @0x00string please use this same analogy for handwashing vs respirators for Covid/flu/etc, so I can cite!