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Null terminator (backend.xylight.dev)
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[–] 180 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Right, So I actually did something similar. On some version of windows I noticed that ctrl-backspace was adding another character to the password, instead of deleting it. So I included it in my password. Then I updated to a new version of windows and got locked out since they updated the password backend to where it would actually delete the password instead of a adding the character, so I had no way of typing out my password. Ended up just nuking the computer.

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  • [–] 54 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Could have just researched what character was being inserted by the ctrl backspace and then used the keyboard to insert the character from its ascii or unicode code to login and then changed your password before nuking your computer

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But with what computer?!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Your phone maybe?

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Your what? Like those things with the dial that are attached to the wall? How are you meant to do it with that?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Easy. You whistle in binary and say modem noises. The operator will patch you through to the internet.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm in.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I genuinely can't tell if you and the person you responded to are doing a bit and committing to it, or are genuinely referring to:

    Phreakers

    Making weird modem noises to hack phones will always be the funniest 90's hacker thing I've ever heard.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm sure this version of windows was before phones had screens attached, and likely before the internet was ubiquitous. They likely had one computer and would have had to go somewhere else to look it up if that was even an option.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or just cleared the SAM password altogether. Windows is trivially easy to break into if you have physical access and the volume isn't encrypted.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Was that the same version of Windows where you could click "cancel" to bypass the login prompt?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    early win98 and i think even into second edition you could just click the close window x button on the login window and it would just dump you onto the desktop. my parents thought adding a password would stop late night gaming.... nope worked till i got discovered one fateful nigbt and i was grounded till i revealed how i found out what the password was.

    was eye opening for my father who then started just taking the power cords off the monitor and psu.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I know, this is easier said than done for someone unfamiliar with this stuff, but maybe still good to know that this is an option in future:

    You can prepare a "Linux Live USB" and select in the BIOS that it should boot off of that.
    It'll start a complete OS off of that USB, so you can access the hard drive (assuming you didn't enable disk encryption) and at the very least backup your files, or sometimes even resolve whatever keeps you from accessing Windows.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Remember: Those were probably the times of a single computer at home and having a spare laptop somewhere ready for that is not the default.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate's house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn't shut down cleanly and refused to boot.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    this i do all the time. you can even make a persistance on the drive so its not just like a fresh install every boot. really nice if you wont have access to internet on the host hardware so if you need sometool inparticular you can have it installed already

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    [–] 102 points 3 years ago* (4 children)
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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Huh, that's what it looks like when you comment \0

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    [–] 74 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Doing that to annoy devs who didn't sanitize their database inputs is like walking along parking lot just to see if anyone has forgotten to lock their car, just to put a post it in the steering wheel.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Nah man, not sanitizing Inputs could pose serious security risks as someone could use this shit to escape and run arbitrary database queries potentially leaking passwords or other info or just wiping it (Afa I have learnt on the internet)

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    • [–] 61 points 3 years ago*

    Title text: My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.

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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Now I want to try this.

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    • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Is this anything that a simple admin password reset wouldn't fix? It's not like admins can see your passwords anyways. (if the system is even remotely competent)

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    • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    At least he's not holding it by the top of the screen like Black Hat Guy.

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.

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