Can a smartphone hack my PC?

Question

linux

Hello, sorry for the stupid question. Should I be afraid that some viruses from a smartphone (including from a corporation of good) can steal data from a PC on Linux, to which I connect the phone? Well, or somehow harm the system, install a Trojan, or analyze files.

Thank you!

Answer 1

The scariest aspect of Usb is that any connected device can pretend to be a keyboard, mouse, flash drive, and network card. And the corporation of goodness, like any viryo that has received root, can make it a smartphone. Accordingly, if you are not logged in, the risk is minimal, brute force is possible, but it will be perfectly visible on the screen and MITM is very likely possible. If you are logged in, then the smartphone can get user rights and, for example, pull out saved passwords from browser files, if sudo is without a password or there are holes, then it can get full access.

Answer 2

Of course they can.
Have you forgotten what world we live in?
Ask who Julian Assange is if you don't already know who he is.
I don't know what you mean by "corporation of good", but all companies have you to the very tonsils.