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Rubber Ducky

Paula on November 07, 2017

You might have heard about the technique of Ducky debugging in which you tell a rubber ducky your dev problems and then you know how to solve them,...
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Max von Hippel

I have one of these, but have only ever used it for pranks on my friends.

They are alarming, though. If I remember correctly, mine could type faster than the refresh rate of the screen on my prior gen (thick) MacBook Pro 13".

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Jaime

There are tons of arduino based clones from $2 up to 30 some even with more features, like dip switches to choose wich script to run or even wifi capabilities. There is also a code repo on github with the code needed to make some of these (around $10) run regular ducky scripts, and a "translator" to convert ducky scripts into arduino code. You can use even a regular arduino (not all of them), or a modified pendrive to do this.

BTW, nice article. It's a ton of fun playing with this things, and a lot of people don't even know this exist. I started using them after hearing about cheap alternatives at a hack and beers conference.

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Douglas R Andreani

was amazing when they used the ducky on the Mr Robot Season 2