*Not* confirmed (tried various between 500-60000 chars) on Dual Powermac G4 1.2 10.2.6 On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:42:41PM +0000, petard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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 -- i.am-> jamie.(at).arpa.dot.com arpa.com :: the mainstream runs shallow
