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Van Diemen's Land
Posted 20 July 2017 - 07:19 AM
Just an idea.
I know you can't really emulate a keyboard with a floppy disk but..would be an interesting idea. There's no real need for it (just create a startup program on floppy and restart the PC..) but it would be an interesting idea to play around with nonetheless, especially if you can get it to inject keystrokes live, without having to reboot. But what if you wanted to constantly spam a program with passwords on it's login screen without actually being at the PC, or something like that?
It would require a receiver program that catches floppy events and possibly others, hidden underneath the normal startup (floppy 'startup' gets run which runs the computer 'startup' above itself). However I still don't know of a way of injecting characters into a read function, and as far as I know it can't be done.
Can anyone disprove that it can't be done?
I know you can't really emulate a keyboard with a floppy disk but..would be an interesting idea. There's no real need for it (just create a startup program on floppy and restart the PC..) but it would be an interesting idea to play around with nonetheless, especially if you can get it to inject keystrokes live, without having to reboot. But what if you wanted to constantly spam a program with passwords on it's login screen without actually being at the PC, or something like that?
It would require a receiver program that catches floppy events and possibly others, hidden underneath the normal startup (floppy 'startup' gets run which runs the computer 'startup' above itself). However I still don't know of a way of injecting characters into a read function, and as far as I know it can't be done.
Can anyone disprove that it can't be done?
