Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas, and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. How the tech are ya?

So, I got got.

By that I mean, I regurgitated some tech news that I saw without actually taking the steps to make sure there was something substantial behind that tech news.

And that's a failure on my part, and it shows that critical thinking is a skill that you have to actively practice.

It's not something that just magically happens.

So, what got me?

Well, recently in a tech news episode, I talked about how the FBI and the FCC, both official US government agencies,

issued new warnings about using public charging ports for your mobile devices.

You know, ports in places like hotels and airports and coffee shops, that kind of thing.

And that hackers could have potentially compromised those ports so that while it appears that you're charging your phone or your tablet or whatever,

some nefarious criminal probably wearing a hoodie sitting in the dark someplace in front of a monochromatic computer monitor that only can show green text,

that person is actively hijacking your phone and stealing all of your monies and stuff.

In the parlance of cool security kids, this practice is called juice jacking that you have jacked the charging station to spread malicious code.

While this warning was recent, there have been multiple incidents of authorities warning people against using these kinds of charging ports over the years.

Back in 2019, the district attorney's office of Los Angeles County issued a similar advisory.

Their warning red quote, travelers should avoid using public USB power charging stations and airports, hotels and other locations because they may contain dangerous malware.

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