USB Condoms
2013-09-22 18:02:24.748441+02 by
Dan Lyke
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I have been thinking about making up some of these for my travel kit for a while, but Mars found 'em first: USB Condoms. Cut the signal lines on a USB connector so that you can charge without risk of someone exploiting your phone. The problem is that so many manufacturers these days are using resistors on the signal lines of their chargers to tell the charging device things that this isn't the panacea one might hope for.
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