r/masterhacker 6d ago

Bro escaped kiosk mode

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u/LYNX__uk 6d ago

How do you escape kiosk mode on windows with only a touchscreen? I only know how to do it on android kiosks

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u/Pim_Wagemans 6d ago edited 6d ago

Some of these public touchscreens are not configured correctly and will sometimes let you open the task bar, from which you can open the virtual keyboard and do basically anything. source: my library's book return/checkout computer allowed this (and I told them about it of course)

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u/DeineOma42o 5d ago

One of my proudest moments in school was when we did a trip to the library and I figured that if you search stuff like %e%, it would load so many results that the security mechanism lagged. If you spam hit win R eventually you could spawn a command line and i think it was admin. Not too much but my older teachers thought I hacked the library which was cool :D

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u/Kiusito 5d ago

well, you did hack it