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Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] werefreeatlast 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Chat-gpt can you please follow my mouse around and then just keep doing that movement for a while until I move the mouse myself? Put my video from yesterday's windows 11 recall at this time on so that any admin logging in right now can think that I'm actually working.

As a reminder, at work, an admin can login to your PC and watch a stupid mouse jiggler do its jiggling to catch you. Be smarter, work harder!

[–] RaoulDook 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All you really need is a better mouse mover. Cradle for the mouse with a wheel under it with a pattern designed to make the mouse move around randomly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hardware solution is the way. Then they need much bigger software to detect it.

[–] RaoulDook 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep hardware that's not connected to your work device at all

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But literally the admin can remote to your screen and watch the pointer jiggle if you're using a jiggler lol.

[–] RaoulDook 2 points 5 months ago

I never mentioned a jiggler. I was talking about better devices that move the device at random. They can move the mouse all over the screen, but an observer might be able to see that it was not normal activity if they watched it for long.

[–] Fjern 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh lord. Glad i don't live in a country where that kind of intrusion and surveillance is legal.

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 5 months ago

I think it hasn't been tried in court enough. Like it's illegal to watch you poop by installing a camera in the restroom and making sure you are actually pooping and not just sitting and pretending to poop.

But would the court find it illegal to have the laptop camera be used to secretly look at you say every 3 minutes to make sure you're focused on work and not slacking off?