• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    USB C has a (soon to be) max power delivery of 240 watts. Shorting that onto a data pin would be catastrophic.

    You can kinda work around that, but honestly the easiest way is to just not present the opportunity.

    • DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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      2 days ago

      That seems like a particularly poignant concern. Lol, so I’m hearing “possible, but but difficult and undesirable”