[GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

[Christopher Browne]

On 11 April 2017 at 14:57, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 02:24:10PM -0400, Mike wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:45 PM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
>> > > From looking at what you linked to, it seems you would need some small
>> > > processor that can work as a USB client device to pretend to me a USB
>> > > keyboard, and also has some 35 to 40 inputs that can be connected to
>> > > the keyboard.
>> > >
>> > > It does sound like quite a bit of work to figure out.
>> >
>> > It so happens that I may have to build something similar at work here.
>> > Right now, I have to press keys manually, and it's difficult to do any
>> > kind of automated testing.  I need an external USB device, acting as
>> > keyboard to the test machine that it's plugged into, but in reality
>> > accepting input from me remotely.
>> >
>> > I'm thinking
>> >     - simple forwarder between network port and usb port.
>> >     - ssh into the device and run program/script on command-line. :-)
>> >
>>
>> Take a look at the CSE gift shop 8-)
>
> Meaning of CSE?

Communications Security Establishment.
https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en

When they took over the old CBC headquarters, I thought they put a LOT
of barbed wire around it, so I'd be more than vaguely surprised to see
a gift shop there...
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