Comment Re:Do cellphone chargers require USB negotiation? (Score 1) 205
Awesome, thank you. Because I'm that kind of person I'll probably bodge one up on the pcb plotter today, with some available pads for adding resistors later.
Awesome, thank you. Because I'm that kind of person I'll probably bodge one up on the pcb plotter today, with some available pads for adding resistors later.
The most obvious route for disaster is a compromised cellphone charger, at least for my usage patterns. Since it'd take me about ten minutes to make a pez-candy-sized PCB with USB-micro-M and USB-micro-F connectors with only the power lines connected between them, I'm wondering if an android phone will charge when it's getting power, regardless of whether the USB is connected, or it won't charge until it's had a USB chat. I recall older devices being able to charge at lower-power (150mA?) but having to negotiate for 500mA. I'm perfectly happy to settle for 150mA for right now, until I can program a little AVR to fake the negotiation process and make me an air-gap charger. I don't have a usb traffic sniffer at work, and am about to lose my pcb fabrication equipment for a couple of weeks, so if I could find out today if it's worth making the pcb I'd do it this afternoon. Anyone know?
This is why I strongly disagree with the idea that firewalls are always needed. They're just another tool, and there are other tools that do similar things.
Given the vendor supports infrastructure for several national governments, I don't think they're likely to change very quickly. I actually just checked the vendor's website - as of release 20, they now support SElinux in permissive mode. Still not supported on enforcing mode.
You're using a keyboard! How quaint!