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>Japan’s transport ministry will limit the number of power banks allowed on flights and effectively ban their onboard use starting in mid-April, a move prompted by a recent series of alarming incidents. The ministry began accepting public comment on the proposed revision to its Civil Aeronautics regulations on Feb. 27. The decision anticipates new international rules expected as early as March from the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized United Nations agency.

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Some of the cables have wifi/bluetooth/etc radios in the plug space itself now. That's how small that tech is now. They can create a network when plugged in and depending on how your device is setup (or if there is some sort of zero-day) it can pop the device and steal anything it can find.

The world is full of terrors that most have never even tried to consider. This is stuff you can build/buy. Not even "government level" stuff.

As if I didn't make you paranoid already, here is another post. This is at least a year old. https://counterespionage.com/malicious-usb-cables/ Archive: https://archive.is/wip/t7uFo

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If this is what (((they))) allow us to know about, imagine the shit they are keeping secret.

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Look at it like this.

If I have thought about how to do this (which I did well over a decade ago) then a nation-state already built it. Think about things like this through that lens. Now, you can go overboard but anything that seems remotely possible probably is and is already built by -someone- even if it's not me.

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I know virtually fuck all in this field, but I can imagine using power meters to surreptitiously house a modem that intelligently monitors different loads over the power grid going through that meter, and also being able to identify what each part of the electricity is being used on, and if a computer, it can determine what the computer is processing by measuring the slight variances in power usage in the processor and reporting that as basically allowing someone to see what is on the screen of a computer monitor or running a program that is being run on a computer and recording all of that on a monitoring computer somewhere.

Not enough? OK, because they can identify each piece of equipment they can directly control the power going to any device and do things from completely deny it power to completely overloading it when it is plugged in.

These are just the thoughts I can come up with while knowing basically fuck on on the subject, there must be someone out there who knows what they're doing and is paid to come up with ideas that make mine look like paraplegic retards on a playground.