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Many defensive are a trade off between the convenience of non attackers, and the trouble created for attackers.

Given the sheer number of devices we interact with in a single day, USB-C as a standard is worth the trade off for an increase in our threat surface area.

1000 Attackers can carry around N extra charging wires anyway.

10^7 users having to keep say, 3 extra charging wires on average? That’s a huge increase in costs and resources.

(Numbers made up)



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