[greglindahl]

There's a legit use for those, to avoid screen blanking. Also used to keep computers from locking themselves after N minutes of inactivity.

[lostlogin]

If only there was another way.

[hayleox]

If the computer you're on is completely locked down, there really isn't.

[wpietri]

And that's the horrific part to me. Instead of making sane software or sane policies, it ends up making perfect sense, at least at an individual's level, to manufacture a piece of specialist hardware that does nothing but jiggle a mouse.

[greglindahl]

One of the use-cases of the jiggler is during police raids, where they're used to keep a computer from locking itself. Obviously that's not the use-case you're imagining!