Hacker News Reader

My Solution: artists tape for covering the webcam and the Jiggler to randomize my mouse movement: https://github.com/bhaller/Jiggler

View on HN

If they can install monitoring software on your client they can see what software you’re running, what its hash is, what special permissions it has and what api calls it’s making. If this is something you need to do I would recommend you accomplish it outside of the computer.

That's one of the reasons why, according to a friend of a friend, those in the know prefer hardware mouse jigglers to software mouse jigglers. It seems to have spawned a whole new industry, with devices like the Wee Shoogle: https://www.weeshoogle.com/ . Edit: It seems there's a wikipedia page about this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_jiggler

This would be the perfect project for a simple Arduino board connected to USB pretending to be a mouse and/or keyboard. Add an on/off switch and you can step away any time you want.

The best choice would be to have it open Notepad and type "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over again.

Devilish

Reply on news.ycombinator.com