 Yet another kiosk publicly found That has a keyboard sticking out the side of the screen a virtual keyboard I know I've done lots of videos on this before and lots of times you get you know interfaces like that It's it's Windows desktop. I have come across a few they're running Linux and but that's not my issue And I try to try to make that clear. I know I I talk up links, but there's just practices that No matter what you do and you should follow regardless of what operating system you're running And that is if you have some sort of kiosk that's just running one application You shouldn't have a desktop environment running. There is no reason for that now I haven't used Windows regularly in over 10 years 13 years now At least back in the day with like Windows XP you can go in the registry and somewhere in the registry I don't remember where there there's an option That is your desktop and it starts up explore not Internet Explorer But explore your desktop and if you go in there and you change that executables just change on the text to a program It will start up that program instead of Internet Explorer I don't know that's the best way to go about it But I know that you can be done and on Linux obviously you can pick different desktops and and window managers and It's very simple to just go into a config file and say hey start up xorg and run this program To where you have no desktop environment running behind it because there is no need for a desktop environment running behind a Piece of stuff like this again. It's a kiosk designed to run One application So as long as you have that application start up start full screen that way if it crashes. It's just a blank screen in fact if you can should set up a watchdog that if that program closes it either reopens or restarts the machine As I talked about in a previous video There should be no hard drives in these machines. They should be doing Network loads or have some sort of non writable media in them But they're running a full versions of Windows and every time I come across this Windows ring with desktop some sort of kiosk. They always have that keyboard Down the left side and when you start doing stuff in it's nuts Not like it's hidden you start doing stuff in the kiosk and and you can see the edge of the keyboard You just pull it out this one was a little difference I had to pull and then press the button said just pull but it was there and My daughter came over and just started touching stuff on the screen and crashed the Kiosk application which I quickly went in and it was in the start menu and I started it back up I didn't leave it crashed like that. I'm not trying to be malicious I'm just trying to point out how insecure kiosks are especially if they're asking for personal information Never putting a personal information and just advice to anyone who's designing a kiosk again Who cares that they're running Windows? I mean I care. It's you're paying licenses for no reason But there is no reason to have a desktop environment running on that Again if it's loading through a network image if you need to do any updates You update the image the next time that system reboots it boots the updates There's there's real no need now if it has you know no rabble media in it You know like I said in the past just some sort of hard drive like an SD card with a physical switch that makes it Incapable of writing you'd have to go in there and swap out the card But again, it all depends on how you want to do it, but just don't trust any kiosk out there any computer that is Accessible to anybody never put in personal information in there and this is just It seems like I can't go out these days without finding some machine. That's a touchscreen That's open to the public that has that keyboard that allows me to close the kiosk application and have access to everything on the computer So it's just I don't know why I don't know why I don't know who designs these things It's like computer 101 Don't load software that you don't need loaded and you don't need a desktop on a kiosk application So anyway, thanks for watching as always. I hope that you have a great day