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My kid (3 years old then) found an issue in the MacOS lock screen as well. It didn't result in a bypass, but a "Spinning Beach Ball of Death". I could then repr

My kid (3 years old then) found an issue in the MacOS lock screen as well. It didn't result in a bypass, but a "Spinning Beach Ball of Death". I could then reproduce it and even filed an issue, but only I could reproduce (and one funny response was: "Why would you want a screen shot of the screen sleeping? It would just be black." - well tell that to my kid): https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463

thomasmg 6y ago
With the current version of MacOS I have (not the latest), one could still cause some havoc... E.g. filling the disk by recording a movie with sound. Command+Shift+5. When mashing the keys, sometimes after login a list of message shows up ("Can not save the screenshot at this location").
dd_roger 6y ago
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 Wow every new person who joins that thread misses the point more than the previous one. This was painful to read.
- ballenf 6y ago
  Here's the last reply before the thread was locked: > I don't see the point of pressing the wrong series of key combinations nine or more times in a row constitutes a "Login Window ScreenShot Problem" any more than dropping my MacBook from various heights until it breaks is a reliability problem. Why do people hold computers to such a lower standard than other complex devices in their life? (Serious question -- I don't understand people very well here.) Can you imagine a car that wouldn't unlock or start if a passerby without the key plays with the door handles too much? If this has happened and is documented, that alone is a testament to its rarity and people's unwillingness to excuse the behavior. Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully.
  - moistbar 6y ago
    >Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully. I've definitely had my Model 3 not unlock when it should, but I've never had it go the other way around.
- young_unixer 6y ago
  genuine question: Is that dialabrain person an Apple employee or just a user?
  - thomasmg 6y ago
    I was wondering as well. I _think_ he is just a user; an Apple fan ("community"). To some extend Apple employees probably moderate this forum (same as here, or at Stackoverflow.com), but most comments are from the community. I didn't find a way to file a security issue, so I thought I ask a question in this forum, hoping someone can reproduce it, and someone understands this is a security problem, and then forwards the problem to Apple. But that never happened.
GrumpyNl 6y ago
That discussion railed of pretty quickly.

thomasmg 6y ago

With the current version of MacOS I have (not the latest), one could still cause some havoc... E.g. filling the disk by recording a movie with sound. Command+Shift+5. When mashing the keys, sometimes after login a list of message shows up ("Can not save the screenshot at this location").

dd_roger 6y ago

> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7598463 Wow every new person who joins that thread misses the point more than the previous one. This was painful to read.

ballenf 6y ago
Here's the last reply before the thread was locked: > I don't see the point of pressing the wrong series of key combinations nine or more times in a row constitutes a "Login Window ScreenShot Problem" any more than dropping my MacBook from various heights until it breaks is a reliability problem. Why do people hold computers to such a lower standard than other complex devices in their life? (Serious question -- I don't understand people very well here.) Can you imagine a car that wouldn't unlock or start if a passerby without the key plays with the door handles too much? If this has happened and is documented, that alone is a testament to its rarity and people's unwillingness to excuse the behavior. Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully.
- moistbar 6y ago
  >Unless it happened to early Tesla, because they were held to the lower standard applied to computers and OSs. That doesn't seem to be as true anymore, thankfully. I've definitely had my Model 3 not unlock when it should, but I've never had it go the other way around.
young_unixer 6y ago
genuine question: Is that dialabrain person an Apple employee or just a user?
- thomasmg 6y ago
  I was wondering as well. I _think_ he is just a user; an Apple fan ("community"). To some extend Apple employees probably moderate this forum (same as here, or at Stackoverflow.com), but most comments are from the community. I didn't find a way to file a security issue, so I thought I ask a question in this forum, hoping someone can reproduce it, and someone understands this is a security problem, and then forwards the problem to Apple. But that never happened.

GrumpyNl 6y ago

That discussion railed of pretty quickly.