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Originally Posted by ratinox
You'd think that because consumers have been lead to believe that USB-C is a single standard. It isn't. It's a collection of loosely related standards for power, low speed data, mass storage, and other capabilities. And then there's Thunderbolt which uses USB-C ports but isn't USB-C: while a Thunderbolt cable can work as a USB-C cable, a USB-C cable will *not* function as a Thunderbolt cable. And some USB-C cables are really only good for power: while they can carry data they are much slower than "proper" USB data cables due to fewer data strands.
USB 4 is supposed to make these problems disappear by unifying these standards.
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Among the things I think what should be done is to have two kinds of cords: Power, and Data/Power. That way, if you are charging your device you use a Power cord which allows the device to be powered but there is no ability to allow the transmission of data to ensure that your device remains secure.