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Re: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back
From: petard <petard () sdf lonestar org>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:42:41 +0000
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how? - you ask. i don't know the exact amount of characters, only that if you leave a key pressed for 5 minutes or more and then hit the enter key, you crash the screensaver and gain access to the desktop. you can mess the desktop and all around it (network, mail, docs, anything you can imagine).
it's much easier than that to reproduce; with the right combination of cut and paste (think emacs key bindings) you can overfill the field and get through in just a few seconds :-). on one of the machines here (version 10.2.6 for those who care) it took 10 - 15 seconds in most cases. hopefully no one considered the screensaver to be much protection... regards, petard - -- "Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration." -- Niklaus Wirth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (NetBSD) iD8DBQE/BfS8gkiZ59A0kiQRAnDWAKCBZ488UiCiuBHCPw3rppKfyWe0JACfTjM/ ZfkH/3Pe+Eb8XCiydw5j+Qk= =sJay -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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