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This is one reason I prefer good old 3.5mm audio jacks in my phone. I have no fear of putting any headphones or adapter in that port.


That's the port that Square uses for transmitting data. ;-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2181476/bandwidth-from-h...


Wait until you learn that some phones have serial access through the headphone jack.[1][2] I don't know much about it yet, but I assume it can be exploited in some way, under some circumstances.

[1] DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE AND BACK OUT AGAIN: SERIAL OVER HEADPHONE JACK https://hackaday.com/2016/10/21/down-the-rabbit-hole-and-bac...

[2] A better audio jack console cable for Google Nexus devices http://www.pabr.org/consolejack/consolejack.en.html


Ignorance is bliss




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