Comment by 🌲 Half_Elf_Monk

Re: "I had an idea the other day: I sometimes have to transfer..."

In: s/Electronics

reminds me of the old windows95 "briefcase" function, which worked to sync files on floppy disks between machines.

🌲 Half_Elf_Monk

Mar 23 · 2 months ago

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🍩 wholesomedonut · Mar 26 at 05:23:

Depending on where you work, that could be something that gets you fired.

You know your work environment better than I do.

I wouldn't mess with it; this sounds like a management issue where your resources to do this within the normal constraints of security rules doesn't exist, isn't known, or is unusable.

🚀 fripster [OP/mod] · Mar 26 at 21:11:

Thanks all for commenting. No this is not for doing things on my work computers, but to help when being at customers. Of course we would discuss with the IT people before doing this. We're not THAT stupid.. I made the test rig to just pass-through commands, so I will be able to do anything a typist can do. Just have to add a possibility to send Ctrl / Alt / Shift / System and F keys. But that is very doable. We just have some customers where the IT guys are not able to lift restrictions themselves, but are okay with temporarily using workarounds, especially when they are present to witness the thing. All customer want solutions in the end, despite all the rules....

Original Post

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I had an idea the other day: I sometimes have to transfer files to heavily closed off Windows PCs (Corporate IT and whatnot) and that is a PITA. Why not connect a Arduino Pro micro to it that presents itself as a HID Keyboard, and then feed the arduino from my laptop with the data over serial. The arduino can open a CMD box, do a "copy con" and then type the extents of the file, do a Ctrl-Z, and there you are. Also sending a binary as base64 and then using the Windows built-in base64 decoder...

💬 fripster [mod] · 7 comments · Mar 23 · 2 months ago