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Tangential, but these same links have always been a great way to break out of poorly designed kiosk systems. I recall noodling with a huge interactive display
by wepple 4y ago
Tangential, but these same links have always been a great way to break out of poorly designed kiosk systems.
I recall noodling with a huge interactive display on the side of a bus stop that had an embedded map, and surely enough the TOS link launched a browser, and from there you could use the Save As dialog to get to anything to execute
- sirsinsalot 4y agoNovell Netware had a similar bug circa 1998 whereby pressing `F1` at the login screen of the terminal opened the help dialog, which opened links in IE ... from there the main Windows shell could be ran and bingo ... you're in.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI never saw IE or Windows running on Novell Netware. It was a server operating system. What you’re saying is akin to saying you can create a windows shell from inside linux.
- brk 4y agoThe Netware backend server was it's own OS, IIRC. However on the client side, you had MS-DOS and Windows Netware clients to login to the Novell server and access the associated shared resources.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoRight, but those clients weren’t “Novell netware”.
- sirsinsalot 4y agoThe windows client login and resource control was branded as such tho
- yesbabyyes 4y agoI think what they mean is the Netware login dialogue, on Windows. My classmate hacked our high school's network, getting him thrown out of class. I'm pretty sure he used a different method, though. He got a job working for the school. This was in the mid 90s.
- mandevil 4y agoColonial? (This definitely happened at my school, wondering how common this was.)
- yesbabyyes 4y agoThis was in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm not sure how it was done, but I imagine it involved the SAM file and Jack the Ripper or something along those lines.
- bparsons 4y agoThis brought back many fond memories of using this hack to play Soldier of Fortune 2 on the school network.
- grishka 4y agoAlso on Android-based kiosks, you can get into the OS through the on-screen keyboard if they're using it. Try long tapping the buttons around the spacebar, one of them would usually get you into system settings. From there you can as much as completely take over the device if you wish.
- ghayes 4y agoThis is how I get to web videos on my Peloton. Viewing the mandatory software licenses leads to web links and then you can visit anything in that Chrome browser window.
- password4321 4y agoRisky share -- the statute of limitations is not up on that one!
- orlp 4y agoAs a kid I loved doing this in every museum/library/other place that always had 'locked down' interactive Windows systems back in my youth. One of my favorite ones was in a museum where I was with a friend, and there was a PC. We were bored and wanted to play some flash game, but we only had access to a mouse, and clicking links inside the locked fullscreen browser. With enough clicks we got to google and managed to copy/paste letter by letter the name of a game site in the search field and play some games.
- dbtc 4y agoAnd I'm just excited to be able to 'visit' a museum from the internet :-)
- pricci 4y agoAlthough using the on-screen keyboard in accessibility settings would have been easier (if that existed back then), I like your creative young mind.
- orlp 4y agoWe couldn't access anything but the browser window in fullscreen, only using the mouse. No start menu, tray icons, keyboard shortcuts, etc. I'm sure there's like 100 different ways to break these bad Windows kiosks so that you'd eventually end up being able to access the accessibility settings, but it wasn't directly accessible to us.