Points taken from article:
- Android 15 is adding a built-in mechanism to protect your device from “juice jacking” attacks.
- Charging will be allowed when lockdown mode is enabled in Android 15, but USB data access will not.
- Juice jacking is a largely theoretical problem you don’t really need to worry about, but it’s still nice that Android will protect you against it.
LineageOS has been doing this for a year or so already.
Same on GrapheneOS :)
It’s smart! Do not expose logic without first supposing an appropriate level of trust. Software can have errors.
Pixel UI seems to have it too, but does that not prevent data transfer?