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Isn't this one of the oldest tricks in the book? the following story is completely made up... When I was in college me and a friend re-made the win2000 login s

Isn't this one of the oldest tricks in the book? the following story is completely made up... When I was in college me and a friend re-made the win2000 login sequence in visual basic to play pranks on people. After typing username and password it pretended to load and then just quit itself so the desktop would show so it looked like everything was fine. We'd then go in and do the classic "take a screenshot of your desktop, set it as you wallpaper and hide the icons". Could apple just make a dialog style unique to OS level prompts? not foolproof, but you can't customise os blocking dialogs from apps so you couldn't replicate the behaviour if you tried to fake it.

raldi 9y ago
If you had enough access to run your Visual Basic program, didn't you already have enough access to change the wallpaper and hide the icons even without the victim's password?
- have_faith 9y ago
  We logged into the machine, ran the app, leave the computer, person A would go up and "log in", except everything wouldn't be right as it's not their account, so they just logged out and back in for real. All of the details were saved on the schools networks drive for later shenanigans like the wallpaper stuff. It was very basic.