So what's an unnerved cable-buyer to do? Well, you could always buy branded cables from a reputable manufacturer, but that obviously comes at an expense. And that means, for the time being at least, no more safety checks are inbound.
Needless to say, by the time the checks were done all of Leung's testing equipment was fried. Further analysis showed that the advertised SuperSpeed cables were missing entirely, and a 10 kΩ resistor was used instead of the 56 kΩ resistor the spec calls for. It turns out that two wires inside the cable were soldered sloppily to the wrong connectors, which resulted in high-voltage power being delivered to the wrong place. Leung has found lots of irregularities with USB Type-C cables - he was the one that uncovered the OnePlus 2's fast-charging flaw - but this is the first time that a manufacturer has got things so catastrophically wrong. Leung bought a USB 3.1 Type-C SuperSpeed cable (it's since been removed) from Surjtech on Amazon, and proceeded to check it using his Chromebook Pixel 2 and a pair of USB power delivery analyzers. He's been diligently doing so for months, but he's calling his tests to a halt after one went horribly wrong. You might not remember Benson Leung, the Google engineer that tasked himself with examining USB Type-C cables.
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