{"id":154278,"date":"2016-02-08T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154278"},"modified":"2016-02-08T07:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:24:53","slug":"warning-cheap-usb-c-cables-can-kill-your-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/154278-warning-cheap-usb-c-cables-can-kill-your-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning: cheap USB-C cables can kill your PC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some cheap USB Type-C cables sold on Amazon can cause too much current to be delivered over your PC’s USB ports and will fry your machine, The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

USB Type-C is the latest USB standard, which\u00a0features a small profile and reversible plug.<\/p>\n

The issue stems from the backwards compatibility built into the standard which lets new devices with USB-C ports connect and charge via older ports on existing PCs.<\/p>\n

Google engineer Benson Leung, in the course of testing various Type-C cables<\/a><\/strong>, plugged one into his Chromebook Pixel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI directly analysed the Surjtech cable using a Type-C breakout board and a multimeter, and it appears that they completely mis-wired the cable,\u201d said Leung.<\/p>\n

This resulted in his laptop being destroyed.<\/p>\n

The USB-IF said it has checked 61 cables and advised buyers to look out for its logos:<\/p>\n

\"USB-IF<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0group of redditors also\u00a0maintain a spreadsheet<\/a><\/strong> with details on all the cables that have been tested.<\/p>\n

A website listing various USB-compliant gear<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is also available through Reddit.<\/p>\n

More on USB Type-C<\/h3>\n

The only USB drive you will ever need<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Super-fast, reversible USB 3.1 coming to your motherboard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Google engineer has made it his mission to warn the world about the dangers of cheap, improperly-certified USB-C cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":154280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,723,605,35302,167,35304,30834],"class_list":["post-154278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-benson-leung","tag-google","tag-surjtech","tag-usb-type-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154352,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154278\/revisions\/154352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}