TIL. I mean, the headers on most boards are easy to find, so a few paperclips and some tape could be your USB port. And most built-in peripherals use the interface so it probably isn’t disabled. The rest depends on how thoroughly their IT vendor locked things down.
That’s cool, so you could just wire USB through these.
i used to have an mp3-player with only an audio jack, and a USB-to-TRRS cable for charging and data transfer.
i think it had 64MB of storage?
point is, it’s been a thing
Edit:
also my keyboard! the two halves are connected together via audio jack.
Wasn’t that how the later iPod shuffle’s did it?
Yup
I saw that prison laptops in the US can’t have USB but can have an aux port and I’ve wondered since then if that couldn’t be cheesed.
TIL. I mean, the headers on most boards are easy to find, so a few paperclips and some tape could be your USB port. And most built-in peripherals use the interface so it probably isn’t disabled. The rest depends on how thoroughly their IT vendor locked things down.
This is one of the most absurd ideas I’ve ever heard. I LOVE IT