[jebby]

You're insane if you plug a USB device like this into anything that can access your employer's private network. Just wildly reckless.

[zhengyi13]

From a security perspective, you're right.

But most folk (not readers of HN) don't have that perspective. They've none of the requisite technical background, and they've less and less of anything like care for what's good for the enterprise in that regard.

[benterix]

I expect that HN readers would use Arduino Due instead.

[bobchadwick]

Or an analog wristwatch on with a mouse on top of it.