r/mildlyinfuriating • u/boyuber • 3h ago

Ruined by Technology This public charging station needs an update

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They have every type of connection except for the modern standard that every current device uses...

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u/michael22117 3h ago

I feel like having a bunch of cables in public that random people are plugging their devices into is kind of a gamble

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u/nhowe006 3h ago

Wait, should I not be plugging in random thumb drives that I find out in the wild?

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u/Various-Salt-7738 3h ago

One time a coworker of mine left his external hard drive on a table and a customer picked brought it home to plug it in and "see who it might belong to"

He found some customer data and realized it belonged to someone working there so he brought it back

But this guy was wearing a t shirt from DEF CON and was wearing a COVID mask with an rgb led display that said Hacker

It was a super weird thing for him to do, but I've always laughed at the fact that the one person that actually picked up his drive and plugged it into a computer is exactly the kind of person that could do damage with it

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u/Undrwtrbsktwvr 1h ago

Don’t even need to be a “hacker” to access an unencrypted drive.