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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
yea… trying to outsmart IT… nothing can go wrong with that approach.

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- tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    kid, stop while you’re behind.
    
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pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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