Funny that he worries the name of his dongle might infringe some copyrights while suggesting uses for it that are completely illegal and harshly punished in most countries ^^

Interesting concept, though the full set of capabilities are not exactly clear. From watching the demonstration, it seems the device is just sending basic input events such as keystrokes and clicks. I guess any advanced functionality would require custom drivers.

A device like this could open up automated attack vectors on setups where there is a USB port exposed, but no keyboard(kiosk?).

@skitchin For fun, hook an embedded GSM modem to a serial port on the AVR & add a USB comm endpoint. A little fake keyboard input and you’ve configured a network path for machines that are well-firewalled.

Ill stick to the BSOD screen saver thanks.

Why do people use crappy video players like that? No full-screen? No link? How is that even useful? I sure as hell can’t read the fine print when it’s in small embedded size.

Wow why dont you build usb rocket launcher. This is just one more toy for kids and his talking about pentesting lolz.
“completely illegal and harshly punished”

You’re a completely retard and will be punished by life.

Security testing is what this is for AlmostThere. Seriously get your stuff together.

omg, this would be amazing for us!

I like how everyone is getting all bent out of shape. With anything in life, there is usually a bad use for it. Think of the good uses, I can already think of quite a few, and even more if I can increase the memory even more.

I have actually considered using such a device as an app launcher for computers I service. Speed is important and removing the clicks to get an app launcher to run off a USB drive could be good.

Run things like devmgmt.msc, msconfig, and perhaps even some basic scripts.

Also spam various buttons on boot to automatically get into bios setup or boot menu without waiting or trying different buttons.

Or, is there a way to make a USB drive auto run when plugged in without any other user input.

While this would be a small asset it would be a fun first electronics project.

Oh, also, this link to the original video might provide you with a better interface:

http://blip.tv/file/3384006/

Oh noes!
It’ll back feed into the MAINS!!!

why is he using mini-usb? it increases the size, because you need an adapter..

worst presentation ever.

@M4CGYV3R: it’s a link to a mp4, just download it.

I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around that accent. Where is he from? P.S. already had an idea to make a USB dongle to repeatedly click LMB for those lame online games to which I am hopelessly addicted. Should be simple enough, but then soldering a 555 to an older USB mouse would do the trick as well.

Some clever ideas here and pretty lethal potential, tho imagine plugging it in by mistake ^^

How about building a similar device into a regular usb keyboard? Then the gadget will be picked up as a keyboard and could operate normally until a certain time or key combination or something. It would also be logging keystrokes because all key codes would be sent by it then it could run software to send captured info onto a “trusted” website at a particular time where the user could fetch it. pretty powerful a hardware keylogger that does input and output.

Another idea is a secure message delivery system. It would only save a message onto the PC if certain identification is found such as reg keys etc.