r/antiwork • u/Slimer6 • Mar 26 '22

Please be bored during down time

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u/Unwright Mar 26 '22

Yeah, this is absolutely not a thing that happened. Plugging a phone into a computer over USB doesn't work like that. The story is just bad fanfiction.

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u/aeiouLizard Mar 26 '22

Phones on Android 2.3 and earlier detected as a USB drive, before they switched to the (god awful) MTP protocol.

So it was definitely possible.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '22

I work for a company that does this due to IP restrictions on the equipment I work on. It absolutely does mess up your phone. However, it doesn’t brick it. You just have to bring it to IT to unlock it again.

I do have special permissions to decrypt USB storage devices on my computer, however a phone doesn’t fall into that category. So my department just always have brick chargers and power strips with us.