An FBI spokesperson told me this month’s tweet was “a standard PSA-type post—nothing new” and that it stemmed from the FCC warning.
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When I asked an FCC spokesperson what the basis was for the agency to update its warning five days later, they said it was prompted by the Denver FBI tweet.

What this means is that state and federal authorities and hundreds of news outlets—none of them with any expertise in cybersecurity—have generated a continuous feedback loop. This vicious cycle has done little more than scare the public into eschewing charging stations when there’s wide consensus among security professionals that there’s no reason for anyone other than high-asset targets of nation-states to do so.