Hypothetically, if someone would order a windows laptop from the manufacturer, which got lost for 2 months in the shipping, and they would have retrieved the money back that they paid for it, and then it would show up one day and they don’t mention this to the company; could the company find out that they are now using it, while keeping the refund? Do modern laptops have some kind of tracking that allows the manufacturer to track it’s product? And i don’t mean the windows finder function, that would be disabled, but the hardware. Could this person get in trouble, hypothetically?

Hey!, not sure if this is the right place to post this question but some googling around pointed me to this forum so hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

I have a KVM that is controlled by a sequence of keys and I want to try to automate its use (by integrating it with Home Assistant). Following this project here I managed to get a Ducky-like device that can receive commands from a network. When I connect it to my computer it works perfectly. All good so far.

What I can’t figure out however is how to send sequence of modifier keys. The one I’m trying to mimic is hitting left control -> Releasing -> Left control again -> Release -> A number from 1 to 4.

All the examples I can find are about holding modifier keys while pressing something else or how to send just the Windows key without anything else but can’t figure out how to script the sequence I need.

Any ideas?.

Awhile back I was looking at some malicious stuff that showed up on someone’s server and one of the tricks they did was to hide a bunch of javascript in template files. If you catted the file or viewed it in nano you saw nothing. View it in vi and poof, bunch of malicious code.

Thought it was kind of cool but didn’t take notes or keep samples. Year later I find a need for this for a project. Google searches were somewhat unhelpful since all manner of stupid stuff matches.

Anyone know what the method is called so I can do more research?