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> Charger may offer cryptographic signatures in the future for authentication against a whitelist at the device.

Who would ever expect Apple to do something like that? Oh wait...



That argument looks like FUD to me. That would be a surefire way to get shunned by the USB-IF and be forbidden from using official USB identification on your products.


Apple is already doing something similar though on the new MacBook Pro, there is a software block on Thunderbolt 3 devices that haven't also been "macOS certified" by Apple:

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/tb3-enabler-enable-unsupporte...




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