Deviant OllamJul 21, 2023

has anyone ever thought of simply making an operating system DISABLE caps lock on the lock screen? (or at least just disregard it?)

1. lots of operating systems are capable of *detecting* that caps lock is accidentally on

2. we know this because the O/S will often display a notification message, typically even smaller and even less visible than the minuscule red text in you have to search for in a browser when a form won't submit as you try to click "next")

3. nobody has ever used an all-caps password in their life

4. is this crazy? am i crazy? i feel like this could be an idea. i hereby release all claims of IP and forswear all royalties in perpetuity... just maybe consider implementing this, someone, eh?

Show threadbhtooefrJul 21, 2023
@deviantollam sadly I know people who use caps lock instead of shift to type caps, and they’d be entirely fucked up by that
Show threadDeviant OllamJul 21, 2023
@bhtooefr heh, then how about we make it an option in the O/S ?
Show threadbhtooefrJul 21, 2023

@deviantollam problem then is, the logged out environment is where there’s supposed to be minimum changeable state (we all know there’s tons of state, but they keep an illusion of there being nothing changeable)

and knowing Windows, I could see a dozen hilarious vulns in the configuration dialog that result in something running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM (look how long it took for them to harden the accessibility options in the login environment)

Show threadChris Burgess

@bhtooefr @deviantollam & this OS option's visible impact might as well say "FREE PASSWORD HINT: LOTS OF CAPS"

but really I think (3) is the assumption to check, extrapolating from "passwords i've seen" to "everyone's" is a leap (not that I disagree, I just am in the "we can't know this" camp)

Jul 21, 2023 at 7:31pmWeb