It's called "juice jacking", which may sound as innocuous as a toddler ripping the sippy cup out of a playmate's hands, but this is very much a grownup problem, unless your kid is already using a cellphone.
Juice jacking is the devious practice by which bad guys hijack a public USB charging port and use it to steal information from your phone or tablet.
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