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Despite warnings from the TSA and historical concerns about juice-jacking, security experts consider the risk of malware or data theft via public USB ports to be low in practice.
Summary
While the threat is theoretically possible due to the USB standard's design, there are no credible reports of successful attacks, and modern operating systems have implemented safeguards like the Trust prompt to mitigate such risks.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
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