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.
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
It looks like it was the ASCII char 127 (delete char). https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-a-small-box-instead-of-erasing
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?
Was that the same version of Windows where you could click "cancel" to bypass the login prompt?
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.
There was one like that? I remember the sticky-keys bypass but not that.
All the login prompt did back then was let users save user specific settings. Your best bet back then was a BIOS password.
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.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
Lol and they say Windows is great with being backwards compatible...
I did the exact same thing with my password at work
Some internal software at my job does that and I hate it
My lemmy mobile client just crashed. This is me on the web interface, lol.
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.
seems to work as expected.
Infinity for Lemmy didn't crash, lol.
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.
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)
Just like @Norgur@kbin.social 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
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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)
if the system is even remotely competent
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At least he's not holding it by the top of the screen like Black Hat Guy.
My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.
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Actually….it’s called NUL
