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Comment by Galanwe | Hacker News Reader

The best hacker I know is my 12 month old.

Give him any kind of device for 2 minutes and you will discover a plethora of UI issues, hidden menus, and security bypasses.

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I came home one day and my cat was laying on my keyboard. Above her was a screen with a large amount of random control characters in a terminal with a kernel panic screen. So there's some series of buttons you can press that will crash a Linux desktop from a lock screen.

My favorite bug report in this vein: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug...

> Steps to reproduce:

> 1. Leave laptop unattended in a cold room with a warm cat.

> 2. Cat will sit on laptop keyboard.

> 3. Wait 1 hour.

> 4. Lightdm will become unresponsive.

Also included: “Alternative steps to reproduce if cat is unavailable or uncooperative about being placed on keyboard (see attached pictures)”

Possibly sysrq if you have the key + c or m [1]. Good kitty.

[1] - https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.r...

At least for my cat and sad surfacebook Windows machine, I figured it was the device literally cooking it’s ram into a bitflip that caused it to bsod. The cat loves how toasty it gets!

> I figured it was the device literally cooking it’s ram into a bitflip that caused it to bsod.

Funny, that's exactly how I push "control" in emacs.

Ref: https://xkcd.com/1172/

Real programmers induce brainwaves into their cats telepathically so they sit just so to flip the required bit

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