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I'm going to guess they scanned all company computers for a process named 'caffeine.exe' and people were dumb enough to use it.

There's something to be said for providing real physical input to a real physical HID.

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possibly but the article mentions devices from Amazon that became popular during the pandemic, so I'm thinking it's those physical mouse cradle / movers. Probably low performers which got management's attention and led them to start doing screen caps and seeing the mouse moving but no work being done. I wonder how many of these are 2nd or 3rd jobs for people, I know someone personally who did that with Wells.

Or maybe they scanned the USB vendor ID's for those particular keystroke/mouse simulators off Amazon. Since usually on corporate machines you're not allowed to install software not whitelisted by IT without admin rights.

Good point. If that's what they did the employees should have taken the super low tech route, set your optical mouse on an analog clock.

In the heydays of Dark age of Camelot, a friend of mine hacked together a lego robot to craft all day long on their home computer while they were at work.

I'll ask them if they can open-source the design :)

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