The iPhone is always charged through the USB connection, whether connected to a computer or using the small "charger" that has a USB socket. It seems a good design, with me having to keep up with a single cable with an attached plug.

During a power outage, I can recharge my phone using the reserve in my laptop. Handy when traveling or otherwise inconvenient to recharge from the grid.


We see attacks like this all the time, backdoor trojans and other malware hidden optional software included with hardware devices like uninterruptable power supplies, multimedia card readers, or digital picture frames; available for download as freeware utility or monitoring software; or hidden in the control software internal to the hardware device and activated when the device is plugged into your computer, much like the old problem with infected floppy disk and diskettes long ago.

Trojans can be hidden in hardware components that few would ever suspect: graphics cards, disk drives, anything USB, network adaptors, LAN routers and hubs, and even a tiny chip in the plug assembly for som types of cables.