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Phones using fast charging power adaptors at risk from BadPower hack – NEWS.com.au
Phones using fast charging power adaptors at risk from BadPower hack
Chinese researchers have discovered timesaving fast chargers that have become increasingly popular in recent years can be hacked to overload and could start fires.Stories about phone fires are nothing new: Samsung famously had a problem with its Galaxy Note 7 phones being prone to fire.
Several years after Samsung fixed the problems causing the spate of exploding phones, the USA’s airline safety agency won’t let you take one on board a plane and have signs at the airport telling you as much.
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