How a misleading FBI tweet created a phone-charging hysteria.
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Why couldn’t I find any actual people charged with or victimized by juice jacking, I asked Andy Thompson, an “offensive cybersecurity evangelist” at“Because it doesn’t exist,” he explained. Zulfikar Ramzan, the chief scientist at the consumer cybersecurity companyagreed, “There isn’t much evidence to show that ‘juice jacking’ is a widespread problem,” he said. To be clear, “From a proof of concept perspective it works,” Thompson told me.
In other words, it seems that the FBI, like every many other entities in America, feels the need to put out content and turns to old stuff when nothing new is going on . But instead of taking the approach of many news organizations, which highlight the date when they resurface old content, the FBI took more of a meme-account approach. Not only was there no date to suggest this was an old warning, it didn’t even bother to link out the FCC, where the information came from.
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