On 13/11/2018 22:04, nospam wrote:
In article ,
newshound wrote:

On my android phone, by default the USB port will only accept power. You
have to pull up a window and positively enable data transfer.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/08/beware-of-juice-jacking/
³One attendee claimed his phone had USB transfer off and he would be
fine. Â*When he plugged in, it instantly went into USB transfer mode,²
Markus recalls.Â* ³He then sheepishly said,Â* Å’Guess that setting
doesn¹t work.'²

OK so that's what the article said. I wonder what sort of cleverness it
is doing if the phone *really did* have the transfer turned off. Was it
perhaps exploiting a bluetooth or wifi vulnerability?