Complete waste of money. Use an esp32 and write a program to pretend to be a mouse. Benefit of the esp32 is you can reuse it for whatever you want in the future, whether that’s a smart sensor for a door, or a tracking chip for luggage.

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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yea, no.

The benefit of the mechanical jiggler is that its airgapped from the system. I work in a field that is very very very specific about what peripherals are plugged in and, more importantly, where theyre made. So no, its not a waste, because theres no shot to plug in an unauthorized custom coded outside device. IT will be notified, it will be an immediate firing, probably charges for leakage/espionage.

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[+] tyler@programming.dev -6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You can have the esp report itself as whatever device you want. If you already have a mouse that is allowed to be plugged in then you just have the esp report itself as that. It is a mouse at that point, the system will not know the difference.

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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yea.... trying to outsmart IT.... nothing can go wrong with that approach.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Most IT is full of idiots. There’s no “outsmarting” here. There’s nothing to detect, nothing to notice. And if you think that a mouse wiggler isn’t going to be noticed while a device that reports itself as an actual mouse will then you’re a moron.

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[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

kid, stop while you're behind.

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[–] pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Right, and when IT walks around to do literally anything and notices a weird microcontroller plugged in to a USB port that's designed to announce itself as approved tech, there's no way that will go badly.

Places with good IT departments might even flag your machine for having a weird device config with two of the same mouse to go do a visual inspection, just because it's abnormal and a VERY common attack vector as literally your not smart suggestion is what everyone else tries to do to get around USB restrictions either for convenience or for malicious intent.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Can’t tell if this is a joke or not. If IT is walking around doing checks then having your mouse sitting on a fucking mouse wiggler is going to raise a billion more eyebrows than an esp32 plugged in.

You’re not using either of these if you work in a fucking office dingus.

Places with good IT departments might even flag your machine for having a weird device config with two of the same mouse to go do a visual inspection

Fucking unplug the mouse! Like holy hell this isn’t a hard thing to understand. You’re just making excuses cause you can’t reasonably handle that maybe a $5 computer is a better solution than a shitty mouse wiggler.

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