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Easily solved with a USB Condom:

http://portablepowersupplies.co.uk/home/portapow-data-blocke...

Edit - note, this isn't properly secure! Please screen your devices properly and consult your organisation's security team/local tinfoil hat wearer, or educate yourself about side-channel attacks, monitoring, and the history of surveillance devices.

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I mean not necessarily, although it stops data access to your computer you're still powering a device close to your computer which could have sniffer/camera/microphone

Very true! There's also potential side-channel attacks regarding noise in the power supply (example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00932.pdf), so it's definitely not a guarantee of safety.

Best to open it up for inspection, then destroy it. There's not a lot of room inside the body, by the looks of it, but there could still be plenty of fun stuff hidden in there anyway.

Thinking logically though: due to the public nature of the release, it might actually just be a fan..

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