On 04/30/2016 03:23 AM, Daniel Bauer wrote:
I do have that, because I did not know that simply plugging a USB cable would give full access (now not anymore, because I followed the advices here and set USB to charge-only).
Well, as others have already pointed out the risk of someone getting at a laptop is unlikely at best and quite probably impossible even for state level actors. The reason you could do this with your phone, before setting USB to Charge only, was because the phone is shipped with a couple different pieces of software turned on for the benefit of the the majority of the user base. There is a USB thumb drive emulation (media transfer protocol) software so that some (but not all) of the phone's storage is revealed to the USB port as if it was a USB drive. There is also a USB Picture Transfer Protocol to quickly transfer your photos to a computer. Also audio out, and a couple others. I suspect these are set for convince rather than security for the teenagers who just want to put movies and music on their new phone as quickly as possible, and don't have a great deal of technical knowledge. Someone wanting a higher level of security would research the issue, as you did and, and find the secret sauce. (However, it seems to me that once you encrypt your phone, that setting should be changed automatically to Charge Only, and/or you should have been warned about that security hole). By the way, Daniel, have you looked into KDE Konnect? Its another fast way of moving stuff between Linux and the phone, in either direction. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org