 Okay, so story time. I've talked in the past about me going out in the wild, you know, different stores and places where there's touch screens and being able to touch the corners or the edge of the screen and bring up hidden menus. Well, there's another thing that I've seen a few times out in the wild out just on these machines that everyone has access to and it happened to me today. I took my daughter to Chuck E. Cheese. I have some video of this and the video is very poor because I'm filming it with my cell phone. I'm trying to hold the phone with one hand, keep an eye on my daughter while doing stuff on the screen and half time I'm doing stuff on the screen, I realized that I'm not pointing the camera at what I'm doing. I'm trying not to look too suspicious, which is funny because a lot of times you do stuff like this on machines and no one really seems to care. But once you start pointing your camera at the screen, employees tend to start being like, what's going on? Anyway, so what happened was I wasn't even looking for anything. I went to cash in some tokens I had because they've now gone to a card NFC card set up at Chuck E. Cheese so you have to cash in all your tokens and get points on the card. So I walk up to this machine to put my tokens in that we had from a previous visit. As soon as I touch the first button on the screen, I see on the left-hand side of the screen a little curved grayish box and I've seen it before so I reach over with my finger and I swipe from the left to the right and I pull out the Windows Microsoft keyboard on screen keyboard and at that point I hit the Windows key and E and it opened up Windows Explorer. Now of course as soon as I pull up the camera to go show this every time I did the window popped up but then the main Chuck E. Cheese menu would pop back up over it and I kept opening up I tried different programs I was opening up all these different programs the start menu and every time the Chuck E. Cheese menu would pop up over it but I had it working before I started. So at the end of this video you'll see that I what I figured out was if I went to a submenu on the main menu It didn't seem to refresh as fast so I was able to open up Windows Explorer and I didn't do anything I just clicked on a few folders and then I walked away and left it like that. What scared me was I played with the keyboard when I first got there Then I went and you know was there for half an hour 45 minutes And when I went to leave the keyboard was still on the screen No one seemed to notice or care But what's really scary is that this This machine does money transactions It takes cash and it takes tokens and it takes credit cards And really there is no reason for the Windows desktop to be running back and I'm not just saying Windows I mean it is overkill to have Windows on there You're paying licensing fees for an operating system that you're basically not using because the only application on there is the application that The Chuck E cheese people wrote and it should have that that should be all you need So it shouldn't matter what operating system running and they're paying licensing fees But beyond that whether you're running whatever operating system Linux or Windows on something like this You'll never really see Apple around unless it's an iPad But there is absolutely no reason for you to have a full desktop running on Linux xorg is enough you can start xorg without a desktop environment may want a Windows manager for the applications You're running, but no no need to have a desktop running You know toolbars and and menus and stuff like that and on a Windows machine I don't know about current versions of Windows because I haven't been a Windows user for over a decade But when I was back in the day with XP and before you can go into the reg edit and you can Find the section where it loads Explorer, which is your desktop environment and you can change that in the in the Registry to any executable so you can basically make your program and whatever language you wrote Be the desktop environment and you don't need that desktop But I've seen the Windows desktop running on so many things and not only is it just pointless It's a security flaw. There's no reason for that to be running There's no reason for anyone to have an on-screen keyboard and the menus and I'll be I'll access all that stuff even from a Technician point of view to access that stuff. You should have to open up that machine Especially when there's money transactions going so be careful when you're out there Keep an eye out for this stuff and just be aware when you're putting your credit card and machines What could be going on? Anyway, I thank you for watching. Sorry again for the horrible shaky video from my cell phone. I hope that you have a great day