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Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced

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with <eanjd8F9nh4U1@mid.individual.net> Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 6/12/2016 7:24 PM, Paul Sture wrote:

*SKIP*
>> I got my first stereo receiver in 1974 and by then there was
>> protection against speaker cables becoming disconnected or shorting
>> out.
>>
>> IOW the idea is not new.
*SKIP*
> Still those problems happened by accident. I suppose some self-powered
> USB devices might have had faults that could lead them to apply high
> voltages to USB ports, but it's not very likely,

Count me in (Praise RNG!), I've had (it's disassembled now) an enclosure
that burned USB host on MB it was connected to.  Yes, it was powered
externally.

> given that such faults could also be dangerous to humans.

And...

> The designers of the USB spec were hardly remiss in failing to realise
> that someone might do it deliberately.

My take is, if those "designers" could be held liable then they would
care.  And as usual otherwise.  What makes me believe, that the
manufacturer of above mentioned stereo receiver could be held liable so
they mitigated risks.

Well, the world was different back then.

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[CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-12-03 16:36 +0000
  Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-04 14:40 +1100
    Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2016-12-04 16:11 +0200
      Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-05 11:25 +1100
        Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 08:27 -0800
          Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-12-05 20:28 -0500
          Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-06 13:18 +1100
            Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-12-06 09:24 +0100
              Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-06 21:49 +1100
                Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2016-12-07 09:47 +0200
  Re: [CM] the USB killer now exists and is being mass-produced Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-12-07 18:56 +0000

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