Question about retrieving a file

[jargonbin]

Hi all,

I'm very familiar with Arduino, but this is my first foray into the world of Teensy.
What I'm trying to do is read a file from the hard drive of the PC the USB is plugged into (more specifically, a text file from a Windows PC).
I can think of a handful of ways to do this by using HID emulation to execute a command and thin kicking the info over using serial reads or something to that effect, but that seems a bit hacky.

Any other ideas are appreciated.

As always, Thanks!!
Josh

 

[GremlinWrangler]

There shouldn't be a way to make this work since it would allow arbitrary code execution from a USB device. Not saying it is impossible just that you would be working past security features to do it.