If you hooked up your laptop to a docking station with a malicious USB-C cable and you had ethernet, an external monitor, and a keyboard plugged into the dock, you would basically be giving an attacker a VNC session. Yes, of course, keyloggers are possible (that's been done plenty in the past with regular old USB-A 2.0), but think about one of USB-C's common applications: docking stations. Imagine what could be done with an infected USB-C cable. USB-C 3.0+ cables all need chips inside them for negotiating USB-PD, among other things. I can’t help but wonder just how utterly compromised we all are, and won’t know it until many years down the line.
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