Another win for our hardware USB-C port control feature. In the highest setting, the device cannot charge unless it is powered off. From Anthropic: "Claude wrote an exploit that let an attacker extract photos and other personal information from a stolen Android phone without unlocking it"

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For those who don't read articles, USB was what was exploited here. Stock Android only blocks through software, so there is still the USB stack attack surface to exploit there.
So wireless charging is a security feature now. Also, who in their right mind would charge his phone on anything other than a wall charger that was bought from a reputable brand at a reputable distributor ?
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LL62 5 days ago
So only the highest setting protects against this?
Nope. Charging-only will protect and Charging-only when locked will when locked. Assuming our other exploit protections didn't work on it already.
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