Summary:
If you frequently juice up your mobile phone at public charging stations, it's time you owned a 'USB condom'. There's nothing kinky about this shield which is a small data blocker that turns a USB cable into a secure charge-only cord. "The USB condom simply blocks the current on the data channels and allows the flow of power required for charging the phone only." Advocate Puneet Bhasin, who is also a cyber law expert, said the data blocker is a fairly new concept in India. She said, "Juice jacking has existed in the West since 2011-12 whereas India is seeing a jump in data thefts with the advent of public charging stations.".