After reading this, my guess would be that someone in marketing probably bought these from some vendor without understanding them very well or understanding why

After reading this, my guess would be that someone in marketing probably bought these from some vendor without understanding them very well or understanding why people would be freaked out by that. It appears to be a keyboard emulator that simply types winkey+R http://[some http://[some URL] It's (sadly) a well-known fact that all unknown USB devices should be considered malicious unless proven otherwise. This is why there are so many things like http://www.umbrellausb.com/ http://www.umbrellausb.com/