Juice Jacking Explained 2021: How to Avoid it
Channel: Mac Geek Gab
Date: 2021-06-02

Check out this Quick Tip from episode 873 on the ins and outs of Juice Jacking and how to prevent it! #DontGetCaught 
tell us about juice jacking my friend
 yes so john writes in and says i'd like to get your take on usb data blockers not necessarily the ones shown below but your comments on whether this is a valid issue when i traveled I hope i can again my vpn is almost always on but I'm am i still vulnerable to this juice hacking and it's also called juice jacking what is it dave in that someone's offer a free usb drive is one variation of this or a charging port but has modified it to either steal data or install malware the thing he's talking about is someone in theory and i haven't heard of this happening in the wild whereas i have heard about other things like you know credit card skimmers and all that but um so what the data blocker you may see a usb port and someone offers it as a free charging port but  um the data lines are also hooked up um and so what happens is when you plug into it rather than just receiving power because both power and data go through usb they may try to get into your phone and steal your data or install malware right 
so what these data blockers do is they basically disable uh those two pins so the advice here could 
be don't use a strange free charger even in a a public place because somebody 
wouldn't we i i think you're like in in terms of like mitigating risk you are 
absolutely right however i think apple kind of has our backs here because when I plug 
a new not a charging source but or not a charging only source i should clarify but when 
i plug a data source into my phone the phone asks me do you want to trust this device right 
and if so i like as long as you're running and I think this started in like ios 11 or something I I 
think apple has our backs on juice jackers so yeah