Hacking wireless presenters with an Arduino and Metasploit

That's scary, since you could do much more vicious things with it than damaging Steve Jobs' ego. Get yourself an Amazon box, put a hacked wireless transmitter inside of it, then ship it to somebody at Google, Microsoft, or any other large organization. It doesn't even have to be somebody that exists. Their mailroom is probably not in a Faraday cage. There are thousands of clients within the firewall and you only need one to have a vulnerable USB attachment on at the moment to root it. It is essentially a way to get physical access to the machine while actually being on a different continent. Physical access means root.

(If you wanted to make it very spy movie-ish, you could actually put a cell phone and microprocessor in there, and execute arbitrary code, but just waiting for your rooted boxes to check in is likely to work fine.)

Your wireless bomb will probably be mailed back to you, to boot. (In the unlikely event it is opened, it will look like somebody mismailed a piece of consumer electronics.)

This makes me wonder.... The dv6000 series (and probably others) have an infrared receiver on them to use with a little remote that comes inserted into the thing. Now the IR port isn't exposed as an actual IR device, because pressing buttons on the remote just sends keystrokes, so you can see where this is going...

The dv6000's are pretty common, I see people with them all the time, and although you'd need line of sight to send keystrokes, your target wouldn't need to be using any dongle, just a particular laptop. Now that's scary.

Is the story with Bluetooth keyboards/mice better or worse?