• DahGangalang@infosec.pub
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    13 hours ago

    Assuming by “jutting pieces” you mean the pins, yeah, I could see that being difficult ultimately to manufacture into the 3.5mm jack configuration.

    But translating each pin to a “band” (sorry I’m not very technical myself) on a jack with the form factor of a 3.5mm pin should be doable. You’d probably need 5 or 10 bands since (as I understand it) USBs use a 5 pin connection (again, as I understand it, most devices mirror the 5 pins on each side, but some more advanced/specialized USBs utilized the USB-C connector as 10 pins, hence the possible desire for a 10 band jack).

    Again, I could see that being difficult to manufacture, but not impossible, and especially if it became a standard package. Might need a bigger jack than 3.5mm though.

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      12 hours 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.

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        3 hours ago

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