Why? My friend needed a way to use his Bluetooth mouse and keyboard on a PC with Bluetooth disabled due to policy restrictions. This tool acts as a bridge, relaying Bluetooth input over USB. It also lets you use Bluetooth peripherals with older devices that only support USB input.
Tech: Written in Go, optimized for Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I love HN’s community and often lurk here—I’m hoping this project is useful or at least sparks some interesting discussions. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Protip: If their company's IT section is like the one at my old company, they are quite unlikely to like this solution, either.
But it's very clever. Kudos.
Another thought around this is that I don't even think there's anything intrinsically insecure about BT as an attack vector but most likely some old policy based on security issues that existed in the early days of Bluetooth. Or at least I don't know of any, but I'm no expert in this so I would love to hear other people's insights here.
Wired connections are inherently more difficult to attack. In security critical applications banning bluetooth is perfectly reasonable.
The best way to correctly fight Shadow IT is to provide equipment and services so good nobody would even care using something else.