Beware bad USB-C cables, Google engineer warns—while naming names

An engineer at Google has taken up a personal campaign against non-compliant USB-C adapter cables, warning of potential charging problems or device damage.
Benson Leung, who worked on Google’s latest Chromebook Pixel andPixel C tablet, has been calling out the guilty cables in hisreviews on Amazon. The issue lies solely with cables that have the new reversible USB Type-C connector on one end, and legacy Type-A or Type-B connectors on the other. As Leung notes, these cables must use a spec