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Null terminator (backend.xylight.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] behindthesailboats 181 points 11 months 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.

[–] x4740N 53 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But with what computer?!

[–] ludwig 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Your phone maybe?

[–] DrQuint 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, you're young

[–] ludwig 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah I forgot that your problem was on an old version of windows.

[–] Jumper775 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] gibmiser 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hey, it worked, okay lol? And we were in the 70’s.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it was the ASCII char 127 (delete char). https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-a-small-box-instead-of-erasing

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[–] tool 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My go-to solution is to simply replace some kind of accessibility feature executable, such as onscreen keyboard, with cmd.exe. It runs under SYSTEM.

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[–] behindthesailboats 3 points 11 months ago

I actually did do that! I found the ASCII code but couldn't get it inputted correctly to the password. The nuking came after I gave up and decided it wasn't worth it. What's life without restarting every now and then?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (5 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.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 7 points 11 months ago

TBF, my parents tried that power cord solution first as I was the "techy type" in the family. It just taught me to hide the fact that I had extras. 🤪

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

There was one like that? I remember the sticky-keys bypass but not that.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did actually remember that, but figured, they must have had some way of reinstalling Windows, too.

I guess, though, they might have had a physical Windows install disk at home. So, yeah, would have had to prepare a Linux Live CD before disaster struck...

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[+] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This sort of nonsense right here is why infosec people warn about having physical access to machines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s not just because of nonsense, it’s more that it doesn’t really matter what you do - the only thing stopping someone with physical access to your machine is their level of determination.

At some point, there’s no stopping the laws of physics. Your data is physically stored there. You can do a lot to make it really difficult to access it, but the best you can do is full disk encryption with a sufficiently strong key, and only store that key on external hardware that isn’t accessible to the attacker.

Even then, you better make sure that your encryption key wasn’t hanging around cached anywhere in memory before you shut down your computer.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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

[–] asdfasdfasdf 15 points 11 months ago

Lol and they say Windows is great with being backwards compatible...

[–] dioxy 5 points 11 months ago

I did the exact same thing with my password at work

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[–] poopsmith 100 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

[–] poopsmith 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] IndiBrony 17 points 11 months ago

\0/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Haha dammit got me

[–] poopsmith 8 points 11 months ago

I mean the \0 literal

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My lemmy mobile client just crashed. This is me on the web interface, lol.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Always leave it to the actual users to find any bugs you didn't think of, lol.

Actual Josh from "Let's game it out" energy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

seems to work as expected.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just like @[email protected] said, leaving your car unlocked is a serious security issue and you'd be lucky if someone walked by and just left a post-it note

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now I want to try this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Now I want to try this."; DROP TABLE 'users';

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

I really want to start a synth band called Robert and the'); DROP TABLE 'artists';

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Little Bobby Tables

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

if the system is even remotely competent

...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

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