He plugged his phone into his dead laptop. A single green LED flickered on the laptop's motherboard.

His roommate's tablet buzzed on the bed. A notification: "Download Usbutil for Android -"

Leo watched in horror as his phone's storage bar emptied. Photos, messages, apps—all deleted, converted into raw data streaming into his laptop. The laptop's hard drive light blinked frantically.

"Download Usbutil for Android," the forum post read. "Turn your phone into a keyboard. Bypass broken screens. Trust me."

The Port in Your Pocket