When Flash Player 9 goes into full screen mode, it pops up a little security message that tells the user how to exit full screen mode. It appears as white text on a semi-transparent black background so it is generally always visible (which is good). Still, I wondered if it could be obscured.
The message is always on top, so it is impossible to draw over it. But what if we tried distracting the user from the actual security message?
Here’s a silly test:
This movie requires Flash Player 9
Of course, you can press Esc (or alt+tab to another window) to escape.
UPDATE: I have made the source code available, warts and all, under a ZLib licence. Share and enjoy :)
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my friend, Fred McLain once created an activex plugin called “exploder” that did a clean shutdown of your computer (still does, if you’re running W95 and IE3)… micro$oft was none too pleased about it, i can tell you.
i find that your flash thingie is a lot more amusing if you’re not running windoesn’t… 8)
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It would work better if, instead of having random letters, you displayed the same text but with other keys, eg. Shift, Delete, etc.
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Well didn’t bother me to much as I read the comments and knew what was about to happen. Not to mention I run linux too.
But one thing I am surprised hasn’t come up already. Multiple monitor setups, now correct me if I am wrong, been a while since using windoze and longer since a bsod, but wouldn’t that take down both monitors and not just one. Dead giveaway…
Unfortunatly, the existance of a cursor on the BSOD gave it away that this was not a true BSOD. To fake a real BSOD, you need to erase the mouse cursor….
Ed
awesome, i can see the flash one more time!!
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Wow~ too handsome! All my friends and me cried!
I couldn’t be bothered to read every comment in case this has been said before, but it doesn’t fool you if you have dual screen, as it only works on the primary monitor thus giving itself away.
Not as effective with dual monitor. Might want to update the code to deal with dual monitor situations :-D
LOL Im on linux and still nearly pissed myself.
This is great. I want to prank some friends with this but have no clue how. Can someone set this up on an innocent looking website? Post the link here and then I’ll send everyone I know to it.
that truly is the best i’ve seen in a long time.
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How embbed this to blog?
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do you have like a link i can post somewhere that will lead them to this?
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Do you have it as a .swf?
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Awesome trick, you’re cruel!
Even funnier if you’re using Linux. I’m going to do this to a friend’s Linux box.
Woah that almost over loaded my computer almost making it crash. I nearly needed to change my pants there for a moment… The error message scared the crap outa me but you better be careful with that some times..
hehehe…outstanding. The BSoD is the icing on the cake. Sadly, it won’t have the same effect on Mac users, but still…pwnage! Nice work. :)
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Brilliant :D I loved this. I’m rediculously new to flash, and wanted to know how to embed this in, say, a blog post :D
haha, very funny. I’ve already scared one of my colleage.
Not sure if these blog comments will strip down the html, anyway here is the code to embed in any blog, just like you embed a youtube video:
Html was stripped.
ok, try this, just replaces square brackets with angle brackets:
[object width=”200″ height=”50″]
[param name=”movie” value=”http://www.bunnyhero.org/static/faketest/fullscreen%20test%201.swf”]
[embed src=”http://www.bunnyhero.org/static/faketest/fullscreen%20test%201.swf” width=”200″ height=”50″>
[/embed][/object]
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Could you put black text in exactly the right place to ‘cancel out’ the Press ESC message so it just appears as a black oval?
The “Press ESC” message floats on top of everything so you can’t cover it up. Also, the white text inside it is not transparent, so you can’t put black behind it to obscure it, either.