“Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees
With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.
To counter corporate surveillance or merely assist with preventing a computer from going to sleep, Amazon also sells devices designed to mimic mouse movement, commonly known as "mouse jigglers."
"Mouse jigglers." That's just begging for a rude joke, but I won't make one. I'm better than that.
BTW, almost 20 years ago I worked for a business that did software localization. At that workplace there was a guy who would suddenly start moving his mouse quickly from side to side. He'd do it for about 25 seconds and then stop. Finally one day we asked him why he did that. He said, "I'm shaking the sand down." If you didn't have to use Windows computers of that era you may not understand.
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