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[–] 18 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

i used to have an mp3-player with only an audio jack, and a USB-to-TRRS cable for charging and data transfer.

i think it had 64MB of storage?

point is, it's been a thing

Edit:

also my keyboard! the two halves are connected together via audio jack.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I saw that prison laptops in the US can't have USB but can have an aux port and I've wondered since then if that couldn't be cheesed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    TIL. I mean, the headers on most boards are easy to find, so a few paperclips and some tape could be your USB port. And most built-in peripherals use the interface so it probably isn’t disabled. The rest depends on how thoroughly their IT vendor locked things down.

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