Re: FW: Keyboard Locking/Invisible Screensaver
From: Bob the Builder (builder173_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/03
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To: surya@nsecure.net, sanj@sliq.com, pogue@rokus.net Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:08:39 +0000
For the application I originally proposed that is what I would call security
through obscurity. Something which is generally considered to be a bad
practice. The ideas of using a screen saver from the MS Resource Kit or
downloaded from the web sound like far and away the best solutions to me.
Thanks to all for your input,
Bob
>From: "Suresh Ponnusami" <surya@nsecure.net>
>To: "Sanjiv Menezes" <sanj@sliq.com>,"'Pogue'"
><pogue@rokus.net>,<builder173@hotmail.com>
>CC: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
>Subject: Re: FW: Keyboard Locking/Invisible Screensaver
>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:23:23 +0530
>
>Here is the easier way of doing the remapping. Just use the Remapkey.exe
>from Win2000 Resource Kit, Desktop Tools. You can remap the keys to some
>unknown sequences, for example ctrl - alt - del can be mapped to something
>like F5 F6 F6 ( for example !:) ) or to some other keys. You will find
>these
>options in a nice gui wrapper from Microsoft which is easy to use. No
>hidden
>registry editing or something that might cause some problems, if you miss
>one
>digit in the provided binay value or some typo error.
>P.Suresh
>Co-founder,
>Information Security Consultant,
>nSecure Software (P) Ltd.,
>Bangalore, KT,
>India - 560071
>http://www.nsecure.net/
>"Layered Defense"
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sanjiv Menezes" <sanj@sliq.com>
> >
> > There is another way of doing this. This may be used on top of this
>screen
> > saver, in order to disable ctl-alt-del, alt-tab etc., usually you have
>to
> > rewrite gina.dll which is messy. There is a cool way of doing it by
> > remapping keys that I use on XP embedded set top boxes that is described
>in
> > this slightly broken article:
> >
> > http://www.northcode.com/resources/articles/01/kiosk.html
> >
> > You can set up one .reg file to disable system keys and another one to
> > re-enable them. Lots of applications for this cool little hack.
> >
> > Sanj
>
>
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