Next time you buy a USB cord — or take a free one from a kiosk at an event — you'll want to make sure it doesn't spy on every single thing you type. A cable that can do just that is now ...

USB has been on our desktops and laptops since about 1997 or so, and since then it has been the mainstay of computer peripherals. No other connector is as useful for connecting mice, keyboards, web… ...

Not only did the cable kill the analyser, though, but it also fried both USB Type-C ports on Leung's Chromebook Pixel: "Neither would charge or act as a host when I plugged in a USB device such as ...