{"id":3210,"date":"2017-02-19T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2017-02-19T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:58:18","slug":"please-stop-charging-your-phone-in-public-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/2017\/02\/19\/please-stop-charging-your-phone-in-public-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Please stop charging your phone in public ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start with Selena Larson\u2019s (a CNN tech reporter) opening idea of this article, \u201cI know the feeling: Your battery is low, but you have to keep tweeting. You see a USB port or an outlet in public, plug in your device and feel the sweet relief of your phone charging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is explained in the article that if a port is compromised, there&#8217;s no limit to what information a hacker could steal. Security researchers call \u201cJuice jacking\u201d a method hacker utilized to steal mobile devices\u2019 information such as: email, text messages, photos and so forth via a loaded charging station. I believe this is the case of a lot of people out there, especially when travelling. To a surprise, even I.T. security professionals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best ways to avoid being hacked via a public charging station is to use your own portable USB battery pack. Other good suggestions can also be found in the article below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/15\/technology\/public-ports-charging-bad-stop\/\">http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/15\/technology\/public-ports-charging-bad-stop\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start with Selena Larson\u2019s (a CNN tech reporter) opening idea of this article, \u201cI know the feeling: Your battery is low, but you have to keep tweeting. You see a USB port or an outlet in public, plug in your device and feel the sweet relief of your phone charging.\u201d It is explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715709],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-05it-strategy","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8j0Bl-PM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3211,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sp2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}