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Babies are great at fuzzing UIs. My 6mo daughter managed to call my wife from my locked iPhone, which I didn't even know was possible. The necessary sequence is

Babies are great at fuzzing UIs. My 6mo daughter managed to call my wife from my locked iPhone, which I didn't even know was possible. The necessary sequence is: 1. Attempt to unlock phone 2. Tap "Emergency" 3. Tap "Medical ID" 4. Tap the emergency contact to call She's also subscribed us to Amazon channels multiple times playing with the Fire TV remote.

encom 3y ago
>Babies are great at fuzzing UIs. So are cats.
- scotty79 3y ago
  My cat hard-rebooted windows 95 pc just by walking on the keyboard. No dialogs, nothing. Just immediate black screen and clean boot afterwards.
  - magicalhippo 3y ago
    Ctrl+Alt+Del would do it. It was Windows NT which brought the "lock screen" when pressing that combo.
    - seabass-labrax 3y ago
      Windows XP was part of the NT line, but still had the Ctrl+Alt+Del combination for 'open Task Manager'. I think it took until Windows Vista for the 'lock screen' to be introduced, but I don't have a copy around to check.
      - RF_Savage 3y ago
        At least the windows 2000 pro and xp machines I used back in the day presented a dialog with both "lock computer", "open task manager", "switch user" or "log out".
        p_l 3y ago
        It was a setting that could be changed, I think XP is the one that introduced the option to start task manager - because that matches the behaviour of windows 9x line that they were targeting for replacement. Windows 9x would open a primitive task manager on Ctrl+Alt+Del
        seabass-labrax 3y ago
        That's really interesting. I wonder if the setting was automatically set to 'open Task Manager' when there was only one, unsecured user (and therefore nothing to lock or sign out of). I don't remember changing it, but this was of course well over a decade ago now.
        p_l 3y ago
        I think XP defaulted to task manager, but I can't be sure, I don't have anything on hand to check. GPO could set different conditions, including replacing fast user switching (the "new" login screen in XP) with Win2k style including enforcing use of System Attention Key (Ctrl-Alt-Delete on PC) to login.
    - scotty79 3y ago
      I'm not sure. It was long ago, but I remember I couldn't repeat the behavior myself and I knew about ctrl+alt+del since before win 95 existed.
      - magicalhippo 3y ago
        Heh, yea Win95 wasn't so stable. When Windows 2000 came out I started using it at home, and quickly got a lot worse at helping others with their issues, as I simply didn't get much practice at home anymore.
xandrius 3y ago
Not really an example of fuzzing the UI, as that's a feature someone at Apple implemented following someone else's design and approval. You were just unaware until then.
- justusthane 3y ago
  Well sure, but she didn’t know that. So she found a feature by fuzzing the UI.
extraduder_ire 3y ago
> 1. Attempt to unlock phone 2. Tap "Emergency" 3. Tap "Medical ID" 4. Tap the emergency contact to call I did not know this existed. That's a great feature, hopefully I'll remember it when it matters.

encom 3y ago

>Babies are great at fuzzing UIs. So are cats.

scotty79 3y ago
My cat hard-rebooted windows 95 pc just by walking on the keyboard. No dialogs, nothing. Just immediate black screen and clean boot afterwards.
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  Ctrl+Alt+Del would do it. It was Windows NT which brought the "lock screen" when pressing that combo.
  - seabass-labrax 3y ago
    Windows XP was part of the NT line, but still had the Ctrl+Alt+Del combination for 'open Task Manager'. I think it took until Windows Vista for the 'lock screen' to be introduced, but I don't have a copy around to check.
    - RF_Savage 3y ago
      At least the windows 2000 pro and xp machines I used back in the day presented a dialog with both "lock computer", "open task manager", "switch user" or "log out".
      - p_l 3y ago
        It was a setting that could be changed, I think XP is the one that introduced the option to start task manager - because that matches the behaviour of windows 9x line that they were targeting for replacement. Windows 9x would open a primitive task manager on Ctrl+Alt+Del
        seabass-labrax 3y ago
        That's really interesting. I wonder if the setting was automatically set to 'open Task Manager' when there was only one, unsecured user (and therefore nothing to lock or sign out of). I don't remember changing it, but this was of course well over a decade ago now.
        p_l 3y ago
        I think XP defaulted to task manager, but I can't be sure, I don't have anything on hand to check. GPO could set different conditions, including replacing fast user switching (the "new" login screen in XP) with Win2k style including enforcing use of System Attention Key (Ctrl-Alt-Delete on PC) to login.
  - scotty79 3y ago
    I'm not sure. It was long ago, but I remember I couldn't repeat the behavior myself and I knew about ctrl+alt+del since before win 95 existed.
    - magicalhippo 3y ago
      Heh, yea Win95 wasn't so stable. When Windows 2000 came out I started using it at home, and quickly got a lot worse at helping others with their issues, as I simply didn't get much practice at home anymore.

xandrius 3y ago

Not really an example of fuzzing the UI, as that's a feature someone at Apple implemented following someone else's design and approval. You were just unaware until then.

justusthane 3y ago
Well sure, but she didn’t know that. So she found a feature by fuzzing the UI.

extraduder_ire 3y ago

> 1. Attempt to unlock phone 2. Tap "Emergency" 3. Tap "Medical ID" 4. Tap the emergency contact to call I did not know this existed. That's a great feature, hopefully I'll remember it when it matters.