I like that they&#x27;ve said they&#x27;ll start banning the cables, but I&#x27;m disappointed that - from my reading of the article - Amazon isn&#x27;t doing any testing to detect these bad cables and are instead relying on customer reviews to report bad cables. That means for most cables someone&#x27;s going to have to buy a cable and have it damage their device or have the equipment and know-how to detect it ahead of time.<p>Having Amazon test every cable obviously doesn&#x27;t scale either but couldn&#x27;t they require the vendors to provide test results showing that the cable is spec compliant? Of course the vendor could forge the results, but that&#x27;s intentionally malicious and this would at least catch non-malicious accidents.