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pocketstar | 7 years ago

A malicious chip inside the USB-C connector with pass through power to the fan seems reasonable.

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schiffern|7 years ago

This. There's plenty of space to overmold a chip embedded in the USB-C connector itself, and such a device would naturally open-circuit the data pins when powered off (defeating the multimeter test).

This "analysis" is so superficial that I thought it was a joke at first. At the very least the device should be completely disassembled and/or X-rayed.