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A comment on The Google plasma globe affair of 2012.

Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by w-ll on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:21PM (#33154745)
Emulating keyboards pretty old technique. I feel like the rubber ducky stuff and the likes were around earlier. And they are still popular, the flipper zero has a mode of usb payloads but that's more useful if you have physical access.
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Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by KennyBlanken on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:23PM (#33159170)
Yep. Literally a bunch of corporate PR bullshit around a nearly two decade old technique. There's multiple pre-made firmwares for uCs to do this sort of thing.

The fact that they hit the MacOS keyboard wizard shows that apparently nobody on their team had experience with such a basic, ages-old technique.

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