 This is my second disclaimer video last one was on radio frequencies and stuff and yeah, I do my obviously I do my my disclaimers after my videos go out just because I just kind of assume Stuff I guess anyway I've done a number of videos where I've gone out to kiosks that I found whether they're touch screens or have buttons and Showing you how to get to menus and other stuff and there have been people in certain Oh, you're going to get in trouble for doing this. Oh, you know, I could you can get in trouble for walking across the street the wrong way to My video show that I'm not doing anything malicious I'll give you an example. There was the one with the gas pump where I found that if you had two buttons That brings up a menu and I clicked on one of the menu buttons and it lasts for access code Now if I sat there and tried a bunch of different access codes Yeah, now I'm trying to brute force the thing I'm trying to break the machine But besides that I'm just using functionality of the machine I hit two buttons and you know, I'm not a lawyer again. And yeah, I guess I could be pulled into court for Two buttons, I don't think that I will For years I have gone out and anytime I walked up to a kiosk touch screen I hit the screen touch different ways and and I would say It's becoming less and less back in the day Almost every single time would find a hidden menu nowadays is becoming better and better Maybe a third of the time. I'm able to find menus within 30 seconds of just Another example was the Chuck E cheese one where I hit the screen and right away I could see the keyboard in the corner of the screen. All I did was pull out and hit a couple keys on it Again, in that case, I'm just using functionality. If you don't want me using that keyboard, don't put it on the screen. I'll do that. Will that hold up in court? I think that, personally, I think the programmers, the people who set up that kiosk should be brought into court for creating something like that where people are, again, putting in your credit cards into that machine and you're giving them full access to a Windows machine, Windows desktop with keyboard instead of just your locked-in kiosk interface. They're the ones that should be brought to court. Now, I'm not telling you to go out and do something that you think is illegal and if you do go out and do something and you get in trouble, it's not my fault. Don't do it if you're going to get in trouble. But if you're going up to a machine and you're typing in any type of personal information or sticking in your credit card, you should be aware of what that machine is doing. And if there is a hidden menu that shouldn't be there because it's poor design, you should know about that before you stick your credit card in there. So you should have the right to hit two buttons on a gas pump and see if a menu comes up. There should be nothing wrong with that. And you know what? If everybody did it, then, you know what? They would stop putting those buttons in there. Now, another topic, someone, I'm assuming, jokingly said, I'm going to sit there and try to brute force this thing. Another person said, I should build a robot that's going to try to brute force this. You know, obviously, you're not going to sit at a gas pump and sit there and try all these different digits. I didn't try typing in a number. I don't know how many digits the kiosk allows on the gas pump because it might allow you to type in as many digits as you want or limit you to a certain amount. I don't know. But my initial thought is it's either going to be a four or probably a six-digit pin at most. It's obviously numeric because it's a numeric keypad. I'm going to guess a four-digit pin. So this is just going off from disclaimer two to just pointing out something. If it's a four-digit pin and it's numeric only, that means that there's 10,000 possible combinations. Knowing this, how hard would it be for someone to get together across the country online, find 1,000 different people with these gas pumps near them, assign each of them 10 codes to try, and in no time, the code would be broken. That's why you shouldn't have menus like this even with an access code without accessible. Bringing up another thing, years ago, I think they've changed the red box. I think it was red box where you get the movies. I had never actually rented a movie from them. But I do know that years ago, I found, again, it's a touch screen, so I just walked up to the machine, started touching the corners, and I found that at the main screen, I think if you touch the top right corner three times or maybe it was left and right a couple of times, something like that, I did figure out, all of a sudden, a menu would come up. Well, not a menu, a little animation asked you to insert a maintenance disc. So that's better than an access code. So basically, I guess to get into maintenance mode on that, you press that key, bring that screen up, and I guess they had a special CD that they would stick in, just like you're returning a disc. They would put in a disc that I guess would activate. I'm assuming that's what that meant. That's at least a little bit better, because I can't just sit there and guess stuff, you need an actual CD or DVD that probably has information on it and without that exact information, it's not going to bring into maintenance mode. So that's a little bit better. I know back in the day, again, I'm talking over 10 years ago, when I would go to Target, when I was getting married, sign up for their gift registry, touch their screen. I heard clicking when I would touch the corners. Nowhere else in the screen, mainly I touched the top corners, clicking. So I sat there, I went clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. And it was something like left, right, right, left or something like that would bring up their maintenance menu. And some of those, some options in there needed passwords. Other ones didn't. I could test the printer or shut the machine down without a password. So again, no need for that. Since then, I think they've switched iPads and I haven't gone over there and played with them. I'm hoping they're a little more locked down. iPads tend to be pretty locked down. I'm not saying that's a good thing. But now we're talking about the difference between securing machine, locking down machine or two different things. Anyway, just a thought. Again, I'm not a lawyer. Don't get yourself in trouble. But if you're interacting with these machines, if it's just a kiosk that that's displaying pictures, or for example, there was the one time I did a video a couple of years ago, I was at the mall and there was a huge touchscreen doing a slideshow of real estate or something like that. I went over and I was touching it, trying to find him. But my daughter came over and touched the screen at the same time I did and it crashed the program and they were running moving to again, it doesn't matter whether you're running Windows or Linux, there's no reason for a full desktop to be running on that machine. Just open up your application, you know, start Xorg if you're running Linux, maybe with a very basic window manager, but no need for a desktop interface. The only thing it should be running is your kiosk and the graphical display interface like Xorg. So even in that case, they're running like they should have and I was able to open up a web browser that connected to the internet, at least in that case, no one was entering information, but their machine was still exposed. You know, as the user, I don't care because I'm not putting my credit card or private information into there, but other cases you do, you're putting your credit card in there, you need to know what's going on with these machines. So don't be afraid to protect yourself and the way you protect yourself is by knowledge and don't be afraid on your personal machine or other machines. If you're using a machine, you're the user of that machine, you should be able to, whatever you're able to do, you should be allowed to do. If you're able to do something you're not supposed to do, that is the administrator of that machine's fault in my opinion. That's now a legal stance. So go ahead, protect yourself. Please visit my website, filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris the K. 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