 laying in a hammock. It's 11 bucks and it's pretty nice. Anyway, I'm here to sound like a broken record. Today I went to a museum with my kids and there there was a huge touchscreen which of course immediately I slid my finger down the side to look for one of those Windows keyboards. Did not pop out. Good with that. Then I checked you know putting my finger all around the edges because lots of times if you just lots of times there's hidden menus if you tap corners of touch screens. Nothing came up with that. Then my son came over and he just started just touching the screen all over and I was clicking on buttons and all of a sudden you know it started to zoom in just like you were to pinch to zoom because he was pushing his fingers one way I was pushing my fingers the other and we were doing that a little bit and the kiosk program crashed and we actually just had a white screen and I wasn't sure at first but my son just kept tapping on the screen and I don't remember exactly what happened. I think eventually we saw menu pop up. Yeah menu popped up and then a thing dropped down from the top saying add desktop. So I clicked add desktop and again we were at it. For a second I saw the Windows toolbar at the bottom but then we were at a desktop and I was trying to click the corner to get that Windows start menu to pop up but eventually like we somehow again just clicking on parts of the screen got into the Windows can whatever you call it the control panel. My son started clicking all the different buttons turning things on and off and the start menu the toolbar came up in the bottom and I was trying to click the start button nothing was happening and there was a chrome icon and my son kept tapping that kept tapping that nothing was happening all sudden all these chrome windows popped up so the thing was just running slow and it was connected to the internet and of course we were there with a school group and other kids came over and they got the start menu going and they got Minecraft going and and there was nothing in particular we did just it was just me and my son touching the screen at the same time crashed the kiosk program which might happen but again this brings me back to my ongoing and I know I've done many many videos saying this and it's probably getting old but the people keep doing it and it's it's messed up because these are people these are kiosks that someone paid to have put up so that means that there are professionals out there who do this again there was absolutely no reason even if you're running Windows it doesn't matter what operating system running there's no reason to be having a full desktop environment running when all you're doing is having a kiosk application running the desktop should be completely disabled your display whatever you would call it um your your you don't need a desktop environment maybe a window manager depending on your kiosk application and again I don't know about current versions of windows but back with Windows XP you go into and I know it can be done with current versions of Windows I just don't know if it's the same way but you'd be able to go into the registry find where Explorer not Internet Explorer but Explorer your desktop environment starts up and swap that out stop that one little line in the database to whatever application you want and that would be your new desktop and that's how kiosk should run there is absolutely no reason because that thing had full internet access and anything could have been done on it luckily it's not a kiosk it wasn't anything that people are going to be entering information on it was a like a display with information about stuff in the museum and I mean we didn't break anything you just had to restart the computer but I don't know what else is on that network I didn't you know I didn't go any further than you know I I I was basically watching my my three year old son click on the screen and getting things going which is pathetic I mean great for my son pathetic for the people who set up this kiosk and and yeah you know this is this was you know like a kid's type museum it kind of it was a place it was a science museum so it wasn't just for kids but it was geared towards kids but they obviously paid somebody to do a job and they did it poorly so again this is just like you know a public service message if you are in you know some sort of IT where you set up kiosks because you know there are people who do this for a living and obviously with the number of kiosks I've come across where I'm able to crash the kiosk program and get a full desktop environment when it happens that is usually connected to a network who knows what else is on the network again it could have been connected to the registers up front where you pay to get in who knows these people should not have the jobs they have if you're one of them yeah I'm sorry you you should learn how to do your job better I did get a short little I guess one little still shot and I did like a little three second animated a gif or gif of my son trying him and and he was trying to get the chrome web search he kept clicking the microphone and talking to the thing but I don't think there's any microphone on the kiosk application so it just kept on telling him that it couldn't hear him it was pretty funny so yeah one thing I didn't see in this kiosk was was there was no on-screen keyboard because some of the kids were trying to do a Google search after we were walking away and no keyboard was coming up and that's when they got the start menu going and they clicked on Minecraft so anyway again this is an ongoing theme on my channel because it's an ongoing theme in my life in that everywhere I go I come across these kiosks that are available to the public some of them that take you know credit card information and other payments and some that are a little less vulnerable for the the end user there but it's just sad how often just it's just I just don't know what to say it just shows how poor the fact you know again the issue I'm talking about isn't a Windows thing but the fact that someone would use a Windows machine for kiosk like this because there's absolutely no reason because you're running one piece of software that is specifically written for this kiosk which means there's absolutely no reason to it should be able to run on any platform so you're paying Windows licensing fees and you're gonna have to eventually pay for upgrades in the future where you know you throw it on a Linux machine in there and just upgrade forever and it's just people in in areas working and I know people like this I have friends acquaintances who do stuff like this for a living they set up registers and other stuff and they are completely clueless and you try to talk come and sense them and they just know I think I've mentioned in the past about a buddy of mine I've known him for years he owned a computer company of some sort that I think he sold but still worked for and they set up registers in in like golf resorts and stuff like that and he couldn't use Linux on those because he wouldn't know if he could get the register to print receipts was his response which is like if you can't get a printer working especially a register you know receipt printer which is probably just connected through some sort of serial output I mean the operating system has nothing to do with that but we had an argument with him once about licensing he didn't understand why open source software had licenses and I'm like what do you mean the license decides you well no he to him he's like you know the license is is the little number on the bottom of the computer that you type in when you set up the computer I'm like no that's the license key it's not the license the license tells you what you can and cannot do with the software and there's different types of light but he was completely clueless to all this yet his job was picking and installing software for companies but he doesn't he didn't understand how a software license worked and why you know open source software and free software had them he's like what's free and one can use it so why why have a license it's like well because it's not public domain but just over his head and again that's what he does for a living so anyway this is just me ranting while laying in a hammock supposed to be relaxing but it's a nice evening about to go back inside and help my wife put the kids down for bed and I just wanted to record this little video while I was thinking about it so if you aren't getting tired of me complaining about vulnerable kiosks in the public I do talk about other things and do other videos on my channel but I do thank you for watching this one and putting up with me and I hope that you do subscribe like share comment if you know somebody who is in the business or maybe if you're in the business of setting up kiosks no desktop environments I don't care if it's an Apple computer or Windows computer I mean I care you shouldn't shouldn't be using those things in a kiosk you know there's no excuse for that but regardless of what operating system you're running disable the desktop you don't even need to have one installed you know I mean on Windows I don't think you can uninstall I mean I guess theoretically you can go delete files but there there's you know you get your X server on Windows or wherever you know and you call it on like you're wherever operating system you're using and you run your one application no desktop environment for a kiosk that's just vulnerabilities waiting to happen anyway have a great day thank you for watching links in the description patreon and all that stuff bye