Raspberry Pi Pico and Ducky Script - Am I allowed to do this?

[Edward Taylor]

Hi all,

I am a student currently learning cyber security and networking on a Higher National Certificate course, and I was wondering if Ducky Script is open source. I saw a project on YouTube that transformed a Raspberry Pi Pico into a Bad USB through Python, emulating ducky script. (I do not know if it is "emulated" as I am not a coder, see link below for github page. From what I can tell it appears to just be translating python into rubber ducky inputs, again I am not wholly sure.)

 

I cannot find information on the Hak5 website concerning this matter. I was wondering if there are any copyright or licence issues around the use of this 'emulated' ducky script. I was hoping to explore the Raspberry Pi Pico as a Bad USB for a project on my HNC course, and as such want to use ducky script on a raspberry pi pico I own to experiment different types of attacks.

 

Here is a link to the GitHub page for the code that I am talking about: GitHub - dbisu/pico-ducky: Create a USB Rubber Ducky like device using a Raspberry PI Pico.

 

Ultimately, I would like to use this code for my project to make my own Bad USB (and for personal exploration, for use on an old laptop I own,) but I would like to know if this is allowed? As I say I have not yet done this project yet, but would like information on if I am allowed to.

 

Thanks,

Edward

[dark_pyrro]

Ducky Script is licensed and the only devices, apart from the Hak5 devices, that use truly licensed Ducky Script are O.MG devices. All other implementations are unlicensed knock-offs. Moreover, the only device to this date that fully supports Ducky Script 3.0 is the gen2 Hak5 USB Rubber Ducky. Will you be placed behind bars for building a knock-off variant? My guess is; no. Don't come here for help or troubleshooting though. Keep that elsewhere.

[DramaKing]

The Pico badusb project isn't even emulated. It uses HIDscript like Arduinos. It's a totally different thing. I know some things, but HIDscript is totally off-topic.

[Edward Taylor]

Thank you for the feedback! I didn't want to do anything that was wrong. I'm glad I didn't start that project.