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Old Jul 1, 2021 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by jsloan
Correct. In this case, the risk is probably fairly small, as I think it'd be fairly easy to see if the USB port has been tampered with. [...]
Agreed the risk is small, but isn't the concern with USB ports (and the like) not just physical tampering, but digital tampering? The idea is you might get a trojan or a virus on your phone via the IFE (which presumably could be compromised). There are other possibilities too of course.
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