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MouseJacked

Hackable?

CHAPTER

Can Your Mouse Inject Commands Into Your Computer?

The computer doesn't really know the difference between a mouse and a keyboard in terms of what's coming in. This is a very dangerous, I guess, attack vector. Let's say do a reverse shell so I can get computer at like root access to your account. All that kind of dangerous stuff. Okay. So this again seems like one of those things, like a prank because you can just, you know, put a nasty thing on my screen. Is it, could it be worse than this? Like, I was assuming a command could be something bad. Yeah. For sure.

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