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.

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] mercator_rejection@programming.dev 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But with what computer?!

[–] ludwig@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your phone maybe?

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, you're young

[–] ludwig@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah I forgot that your problem was on an old version of windows.

[–] Jumper775@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your what? Like those things with the dial that are attached to the wall? How are you meant to do it with that?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Easy. You whistle in binary and say modem noises. The operator will patch you through to the internet.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in.

[–] Somsphet@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't tell if you and the person you responded to are doing a bit and committing to it, or are genuinely referring to:

Phreakers

Making weird modem noises to hack phones will always be the funniest 90's hacker thing I've ever heard.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, it worked, okay lol? And we were in the 70’s.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure this version of windows was before phones had screens attached, and likely before the internet was ubiquitous. They likely had one computer and would have had to go somewhere else to look it up if that was even an option.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

And a time when if you had a phone capable of the internet it would probably cost 5€ per minute.

[–] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like it was the ASCII char 127 (delete char). https://superuser.com/questions/33142/ctrlbackspace-inserts-a-small-box-instead-of-erasing

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[–] tool@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just cleared the SAM password altogether. Windows is trivially easy to break into if you have physical access and the volume isn't encrypted.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My go-to solution is to simply replace some kind of accessibility feature executable, such as onscreen keyboard, with cmd.exe. It runs under SYSTEM.

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[–] EinfachUnersetzlich@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Was that the same version of Windows where you could click "cancel" to bypass the login prompt?

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My parents had the power cord in locked box, so you need a key to turn the computer on, which only they have.
Me and all my siblings learnt to pick lock.

[–] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What did you use as tools, or was it a masterlock?

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[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

TBF, my parents tried that power cord solution first as I was the "techy type" in the family. It just taught me to hide the fact that I had extras. 🤪

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

There was one like that? I remember the sticky-keys bypass but not that.

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[–] Knusper@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Remember: Those were probably the times of a single computer at home and having a spare laptop somewhere ready for that is not the default.

[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate's house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn't shut down cleanly and refused to boot.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Lol and they say Windows is great with being backwards compatible...

[–] dioxy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I did the exact same thing with my password at work

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[–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Huh, that's what it looks like when you comment \0

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

\0/

[–] Yearly1845@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Haha dammit got me

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I mean the \0 literal

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[–] afa@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My lemmy mobile client just crashed. This is me on the web interface, lol.

[–] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

seems to work as expected.

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] daw_germany@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] teft@startrek.website 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Title text: My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.

[–] Noodlez@programming.dev 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I want to try this.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I want to try this."; DROP TABLE 'users';

ftfy

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

I really want to start a synth band called Robert and the'); DROP TABLE 'artists';

[–] ButWhatDoesItAllMean@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

Little Bobby Tables

[–] Neato@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

if the system is even remotely competent

...

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

At least he's not holding it by the top of the screen like Black Hat Guy.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.

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