2026-07-24 02:13 UTC
Help me out hivemind: Kmart this week started selling a thing called an "Automatic mouse mover" (See https://www.kmart.com.au/product/automatic-mouse-mover-43721283/) that jiggles a mouse to stop a PC from going into sleep mode. There are plenty of similar devices on Amazon.
They feel daft to me given it's possible to just set a PC not to go to sleep.
The suspicion is that these things let you fake working remotely.
Or am I being too cynical and missing a legit use for these things?
Send me clever takes on these things - I hope to write this on Monday
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@richardstocks@infosec.exchange 2026-07-24 13:08
@ssharwood@theblower.au I’ve seen people use them to stop Teams/Slack from showing them as away.
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@spadgos@theblower.au 2026-07-24 15:14
@ssharwood@theblower.au Some corporate comms apps (MS Teams?) will switch your status to 'Away' if there's a period of inactivity, so this is to hide from that.