Mouse Jiggler Offense and Defense

A group of highly-armed individuals has just stormed into your office. They are looking to pull data from your computers which are protected with full disk encryption. In order to prevent your screen saver from activating they will likely immediately insert a mouse jiggler to prevent your screensaver lock from activating. This talk will present ways of detecting and defending against such assaults on your system by mouse jiggler wielding individuals. It will also show you how to build your own simple mouse jiggler. Nothing beyond basic Linux usage is required to understand this talk. Attendees will leave with several ways to defend against mouse jigglers and the knowledge of how to create their own mouse jigglers.

Phil was born at an early age. He cleaned out his savings as a boy in order to buy a TI99-4A computer for the sum of $450. Two years later he learned 6502 assembly and has been hacking computers and electronics ever since.

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