I recently discovered a secret browser located inside the "Manage my account" popup that Android has in various apps (quite important apps, such as Settings, and all Google suite apps).
A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.
This is a pretty exciting "extra feature", Google!
This is kinda funny. During a family vacation as a kid, I went down to the hotel business center to use a computer kiosk but it required payment. I was bored so I was clicking around on the locked screen's hotel logo and got to their company about page, and a bit more link clicking eventually got me out of the company's website and to a google search page. I browsed for free for what seemed like an hour and did it again the next day before we went home.
Boredom really is a valuable and underrated tool. Leaving reddit and cutting back on my social media time kind of reminded me of that fact.
A day or two after dropping reddit, I spent the time I would've spent on reddit learning powershell and writing a script to automate a little bit of my job. Simply because I was so mind numbingly bored.
Next I need to write one that will bump my mouse during that space of time I saved while I sit and twiddle my thumbs, lol.
I have a memory of something similar at a travel tourism kiosk. Kiosk was locked to their webpage. Right clicked an image, chose "save as", navigated to something with a folder, right clicked and chose "Open in New Window" (might be misrembering -- older version of windows) to pop up Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer, at the time, embedded Internet Explorer 4 if you typed a URL in the address bar, so off the races I was.
The older versions of IE back in the Windows 9X era would essentially turn into Windows Explorer if you put a local file path into them. I remember using this exploit back in the day on our school computers that ran a locked down version of Windows where you couldn't browse anything in Windows Explorer beyond your personal network folder. I found that by typing C:/ into the IE address bar it would turn IE into Windows Explorer mode and from there I had full access to the C drive and could even open up the folder tree sidebar thing and browse the local network, finding all sorts of folders that I wasn't supposed to be able to access.
Haha, yes! Sounds about right. Someone could create a puzzle game where you trying to escape a vendor kiosk and it gets progressively more complex as you go on.
Curious if someone in an abusive relationship could use this trick if their phone was being monitored. If the abuser was just monitoring them with the phone's parental controls this would work but if there was an app probably not?
the was a news here on lemmy where someone got in prison because the local county has put some malware in the phone. It logged a single request to Pornhub, so the guy bail was revoked
Lol, sort of confession time. I was writing an essay for a major exam once, and I tried using Word's built-in search function just to see if it would work. It did, and nobody was the wiser.
I didn't actually cheat; I didn't need to. But, I felt proud for figuring out a way I could have, haha.