# Phone charger and hack question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-charger-and-hack-question/794357>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 22, 2017, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-charger-and-hack-question/794357 "2017-08-22T12:43:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phone-charger-and-hack-question/794357/21 "2017-08-25T14:11:41Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Apple is remarkably good at asking a major security question exactly once and giving you no way to ever revisit the question or revoke your initial approval.
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> So now my company-issue iPad tablet trusts every SSID claiming to be from a Hilton. Even ones it finds miles from the nearest actual factual Hilton. Thanks Steve.

Well, in perfect fairness, every Wi-Fi-enabled computing device behaves the same way by default. My Android, my wife’s Windows laptop, even my Linux laptop. All of them.

That’s the reason why the phrase “rogue access point” scares the spit out of security professionals, and why for any application that matters you’re supposed to run an encrypted VPN though the AP.

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