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# Jumping out of Touch Screen Kiosks

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**Background:**

 Nowadays, the use of large touch screen kiosks has been prevalent. They are to replace tradition paper-based brochures and to provide more interactive means to consumers. In restaurants, you can see a variety of food menu that can be accessible in large touch screen LCD monitor. In your local Telcos, you can see a variety of mobile and Internet subscriptions plans.

 Behind these touch screen menus are running standalone or browser-mode Adobe Flash applications which are second-to-none for interactivity and scalablity and ease of update. Data could be pulled from somewhere round their centralized web severs.

 **Weakness: Jumping out**
**We cannot use [iKat](https://web.archive.org/web/20171009145341/http://ikat.ha.cked.net/) at first as we do not have access to any keyboard facility.
 However, the trick is no-brainer.

- Do long press on any locations and relieve.
- You should see the usual Flash context menu like:
- Touch "Global Settings". [![](https://web.archive.org/web/20171009145341im_/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zCWUFKljCZQ/UEqvAlpw0DI/AAAAAAAAAIY/UbbDodrbvPA/s320/flash-context.png)](https://web.archive.org/web/20171009145341/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zCWUFKljCZQ/UEqvAlpw0DI/AAAAAAAAAIY/UbbDodrbvPA/s1600/flash-context.png)
- A web browser window will pop up and redirect to the Adobe URL, [http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20171009145341/http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager.html) .
- At this point in time, you have jumped out of the Touch Screen kiosk. You should be able to see the Window start menu and all that.
- You should be able to imagine next steps on how to compromise this box.