Fun at Target

IRLDOSSAYWHA?

So this is why you just can't take me anywhere in public.
I get bored, stare at something electronic, and have this urge to see if I can break it. I call this, IRLDOS. At first glance, the term may remind you of "In Real Life Disk Operating System," which would send shivers down anyone's spine. Not to worry, as this is not the case.

This is instead me trying to see if I can break it, and if I can, see what else I can do with it.

Most see price a checking thingy-ma-bob, I see a toy.

Clear and enter? Sounds like access control.

You may notice the buttons on the side: 1-9, 0, Clear, and Enter.
For something that doesn't need the user to physically touch the device, that sure is a lot of buttons.

Sure, Trent.

So here you can see that there a four more buttons: A, B, C, D. No, I didn't remove the B.

Don't look obvious.

Holding down A and D at the same time gives you this, a password prompt.











Oh look, all the buttons are used for password entry.

 Three wrong guesses and it goes to this screen for a few seconds, and then passes to the home screen. This might mean that it has a failed login attempt list. This could mean that it has storage on the device, or it phones home to a server.








 Now what would happen if I put "uniComp" into the Google Machine

It even tells me what terminal!

 I found this at another Target in the area.

Stop! I'll make you look cheap!

It was well guarded by clothes.
















I was able to confirm that the unit loses power when unplugging the ethernet. Thus that suggests it is POE. The password? Well, I don't know, I haven't actually tried Googling "uniComp" or "uniComp+User+Manual" or "uniComp+Default+Password." Hell, social engineering might work, try a general manager or something. Why not try the store number?
Now who said you can't hack things when you are poor, use the world around you!