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Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Huh, I wondered how they detected it but it reads like most were via software.

I had a test computer that needed to stay awake for 6 hours but IT wouldn't allow me to turn off screensaver/lock after 10 mins of inactivity. So we agreed to putting it in a room locked by badge access and using something to trigger the mouse. I got an analog clock with a second hand, taped a piece of paper to the second hand, laid it on its back, and put the optical mouse on top of it so the mouse would see the flag every 60s and stay on.

I wonder if Wells Fargo uses keystroke and mouse movement monitoring to detect that sort of thing. I expect it would be easy to design.

Also, lol at the whole thing.

[–] charles@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My guess is these were underperforming problem employees that they wanted to drop. This provided an easy out to skip a PIP and severance. A company the size of wells fargo there are going to be way more people than 14 using a jiggler. If it were a blanket 1-strike, it would be a lot more folks gone.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Tossing a dozen employees they were anyways with a big headline about it being because of not constantly working is a net profit from how many other employees will now be scared into working constantly.

[–] Legonatic@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am an AV tech and we use a mouse jiggler script to prevent computers from going into an inactive state for presentations during events at my company. The script doesn't need to be installed, you just open the file by double clicking.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I use an rpi2040 with circuitpython and usbhid. Plug it into anything and it shows up as a mouse and moves the mouse in a tiny circle every few minutes. You can get one for $6.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wild that Wells Fargo would issue computers that would allow people to install anything on them.

That's a very common thing. I don't know a single company or organization that prevents executables from running. You don't have to install programs to use them, it's just that most software ships installers

[–] magic_smoke@links.hackliberty.org 0 points 5 months ago

I've seen it done, can be a PITA to manage but worth it for the lack of stupid shit from custies IMO.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

The software probably doesn't need to actually be installed.