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Re: [Full-Disclosure] MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back
From: Scott Menor (Scott.Menor
asu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 01:15:00 CDT
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On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 22:46 America/Phoenix, Scott Menor wrote:
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> On Friday, Jul 4, 2003, at 10:26 America/Phoenix, Brent J. Nordquist
> wrote:
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>> On 4 Jul 2003, Delfim Machado <bipbipxpto.org> wrote:
>>
>>> i don't know the exact amount of characters, only that if you leave a
>>> key pressed for 5 minutes or more and then hit the enter key, you
>>> crash
>>> the screensaver and gain access to the desktop.
>>
>> Confirmed; Mac OS X 10.2.6 on iBook (600MHz PowerPC G3)
>
> also confirmed on Mac OS X 10.2.6 on Powerbook (17" / 1GHz G4)
>
> appears to also effect other Cocoa applications
should have included in my previous email but (as mentioned here -
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1330224&mode=thread ),
using emacs ctrl-a, ctrl-k and ctrl-y ctrl-y in succession shows that
it requires between 1280 and 1380 characters to crash the screensaver
(I didn't have time to find an exact number)
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