Comment by geerlingguy

Comment by geerlingguy 18 hours ago

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In this case, the KVMs are plugged into multiple laptops being run in people's basement/spare bedroom, it seems. Someone will earn a set amount per laptop per month, to accept a company-supplied laptop (from a us company) then plug in one of these little KVMs to give a remote worker access without as much ease in detection.

nradov an hour ago

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the people running these North Korean laptop farms.

https://www.wsj.com/business/north-korea-remote-jobs-e4daa72...

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  • yard2010 23 minutes ago

    > "I live in a travel trailer. I don’t have running water; I don’t have a working bathroom. And now I don’t have heat,” she said. “I’m really scared. I don’t know what to do."

    Whn people have no solutions for basic problems they become the problem.

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Quitschquat 5 hours ago

> amount per laptop per month

Curious what typical rates would be.

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moffkalast 11 hours ago

So the main difference over more typical remote desktop methods is that it pretends to be a physical display and keyboard to fool the PC it's remoting into in if it's overly locked down?

Feels like there's otherwise a hundred different ways to already do remote control without any extra hardware.

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  • bjackman 11 hours ago

    All the alternatives have a risk of setting off D&R tripwires. Assuming these things can spoof their device IDs so they look like a Logitech keyboard etc, I think the cost of the hardware setup is gonna easily pay for itself in terms of harder detection.

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  • nightfly 11 hours ago

    > Feels like there's otherwise a hundred different ways to already do remote control without any extra hardware

    This way the worker doesn't have to know 100 different ways to remote into the machine, just one

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