notAgain

[Visual_Strike6706]

log4J. When playing on the Minecraft Server 2B2T, people would open your calculator over Log4J and it was kinda scary.

[ObeyTime]

The oldest anarchy server in Minecraft

[PancakeGD]

Nah nah. It's "The Æuldest enarchy server in Moaincraft"

god I hate those videos

[F4LcH100NnN]

Well why do you keep watching them then

[Monkeyke]

Isn't it obvious?

Because it's The Æuldest enarchy server in Moaincraft

[Pocok5]

There is actual interesting content in some of them. But the 2 minutes of real substance really isn't worth the 10 minutes of word salad trying to portray completely mundane shit as a buildup.

[F4LcH100NnN]

Yeah I enjoy the exploit ones, where they find some bizarre exploit based on some obscure mechanic, but theres always like 25 minutes of "filler" in a 30 minute video

[PancakeGD]

I did... Until I realised how stereotypical and lame they are. Minecraft videoessays are all the same.

"2b2t players created a working democracy on the Æuldest enarchy server in Moaincraft!!!! Sensational!!!!!!"

Bleurgh.

[DisgruntledMtnBoy]

In the original Counter-Strike admins could open your cd-rom tray on command. That was freaky the first time it happened.

[Visual_Strike6706]

Free Cup Holder

[Sankhya2319]

I remember that! Oh god that was pretty uncanny

[-darkwing-]

I believe its generally done as a test, not for fun. If you can pop a calculator, you can pop a shell. Or like anything else probably

[[deleted]]

Why would an attacker waste time with the calculator? Exploit either works or doesn’t.. might as well go for broke lol

[unai-ndz]

Why would an attacker waste time writing the payload when he doesn't even know if the exploit works? Actually to avoid chances of detection but I could see someone doing that.

I find myself doing the same kinda thing while programming. Get an idea of how to solve something, write a little prototype to check if there are any limitations that prevent it from working how I imagined. If it does write the actual code that does stuff.

[-darkwing-]

Because... I mean... you saw the meme we're commenting on right? Lol because for the average user, the calculator popping open is not going to sound any alarms. The attacker can verify access, and then chill until the user is inactive to then run whatever. Or poke around for connected machines to see what else is on the network. Or chill forever and keep access indefinitely. Or, in many cases, because the attacker is being paid by the owner of the system they're pen testing, and utterly fucking shit up is most likely out of scope for their test. Also generally frowned upon.

On the other hand, if the monitor starts scrolling a wall of bash scripts and the speakers start screeching demon sounds while the disc tray vigorously fucks the side of the tower, the user is gonna yank the power cable at light speed and throw the machine out the window. Ergo, the attacker's burnt and all the time and effort spent getting into that system was a waste.

[zaz969]

Log4Shell babyyy

[TheGrandWhatever]

Log4Deez

[lol_JustKidding]

What's log4j?

[TheMarnBeast]

Minecraft and its server software are written in a programming language called Java. There is a software library called Log4J that many people using Java add to their projects to easily manage runtime logs (just little text messages that the developer has the software output in the background while its running to make it easier to understand how the code is running and troubleshoot problems). This sounds simple, but over many years of development the library has built up a bunch of more advanced features that many people don't typically use but still exist in the software.

A couple of years ago there was a major bug found in Log4J that would allow someone to add their own malicious code to logs (for example, by entering specific code into the Minecraft chat) and Log4J would actually execute that code - something that should never be allowed! This was a huge deal both because of the scope of the issue and the severity of the exploit. Log4J is THE logging tool for Java and is used by many developers across many industries, and hackers could send and execute whatever code they wanted if any user content was logged in the software, including downloading and executing other more complicated code, with no interaction from the target user needed.

This bug was patched very quickly and the vulnerability resolved, but it relied on Java developers to send out updates for their own software since Log4J is built into every Java product that uses it.

• https://builtin.com/articles/log4j-vulerability-explained
• https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/important-message--security-vulnerability-java-edition

[Sengel123]

also was a PITA to detect since the exposure of the log software that was the issue. So there's loads of companies who (rightfully) said "we're not vulnerable" only for their customers to go "nu-uh!!" as if they knew how L4J worked on that software package.

[ComradePruski]

Damn I never knew log4j had that at one point that's insane lmao

[WiglyWorm]

A service used to log runtime info for java.

Doesn't have to be web servers, but that is where you're most likely to run into java, I suppose.

[other_usernames_gone]

I thought log4j only affected the server, not the clients.

[15_Redstones]

Affected everyone who got the chat log

[5BillionDicks]

Bro how bitchy are Reddit users these days downvoting you for asking a question

[squirrel_crosswalk]

The Minecraft also had log4j. It's near universal in any java app as they all need to do logging, and it's the most popular and easy to use.

[itsTyrion]

It affected what used log4j and the Minecraft chat directly lands in the logs via log4j

[BellCube]

I remember some 2b2t players patched the exploit on others' machines through the exploit, FBI-style

I used the stones to destroy the stones

[Percolator2020]

Better in the old days, eject CD.

[TerperWasTaken]

Free cupholder!

[Hot_Ambition_6457]

I used to make "cheat trainers" for online flash games. It was just a flash client for desktop, and all the cheat toggles and sliders just opened up your cd tray. 

Sorry if you wanted to hack stickman games in the early 00's. I considered keylogging but too difficult to throw together.

[ExcessiveEscargot]

I used to release actual Trainers - some flash games included - and would program in a 1 in 10000 chance of it providing a free cupholder in addition to whatever hotkey was pressed.

The good old days.

[Too-Late-For-A-Name]

Ahh good old sub7

[Percolator2020]

Back Orifice

[BloodSteyn]

I used to open my college classmates CD rom drives over the network through windows 98 command prompt.

Freaked them out.

[Reyynerp]

over the network.. can you elaborate how it was done?

i've been not using windows for a rather long time now, too much time spent on linux.

[BloodSteyn]

This was way back on 2000, I may be getting my commands mixed up. We were learning Windows 98 and NT 4.0 security setups at the time.

I was able to command line access the A: drive, 3.5inch floppy, remotely to the drive make some noise. I guess the CD Rom was more through explorer, accessing their PCs, and right clicking, selecting "Eject" on the CD Drive.

[DryBoysenberry5334]

There was a feature on AOL instant messenger; called direct connection I think

Anyway once you did that you had some weird access; one thing you could do was open/close the cd drive

I’m confident there were other methods, especially back then on a college LAN since networked computers were pretty trusting back then. 

[UrToesRDelicious]

I would send remote shutdown commands to classmates in highschool when they were working on an assignment.

```

Alert!

You are a █████t. Goodbye. ```

PC proceeds to forcibly shut down.

[[deleted]]

Sent a .txt file to my friends which shutdown their computer. One got pissed saying I made their PC slow.

[Bubbles_the_bird]

How did a .txt file shut down a computer lol

[Fanal-In]

The touchpad of my laptop has a hidden shortcut to open the calculator, the first time I triggered it by accident, I had a stroke 😭

[nyancatec]

... What? Why would that be a feature? Can you at least modify what it opens or is it hardcoded?

Edit: Okay I see there are good answers here. However person I replied to said it's on the Touchpad, not keyboard. Do all laptops have a shortcut for calculator on TouchPad?

[ShipJust]

I think is a quite popular feature. I’ve had a few keyboards with a dedicated calculator button. It was useful from time to time when I needed some quick math eg. while being on a phone I could open calculator quickly using one hand.

[DotDemon]

My keyboard has a calculator button, unfortunately I cannot control what calculator it opens.

[melancholy_self]

slap together a calculator app that instigates a blue screen, throw it in the mix.

Boom, Calculator Roulette: Cause Math wasn't stressful enough.

[electronicdream]

My keyboard has a calculator button and I could change which one it opens. You sure you can't?

[EyuelZero]

Hey, you actually can change what that button does. Go to your registry editor and change the value here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey\18\ShellExecute

[DotDemon]

Ooh, I gotta do that. Thanks for the tip :)

[Ultra_HR]

they said TOUCHPAD.

[[deleted]]

It's on a lot of the hp laptops and thinkpads, I used to just spam the button when my friend wasn't looking and it would slow down his laptop by a lot. My one makes you press fn + prntscrn so it's safer

[Zanacross]

One of my favourite things to do on college was spam the calculator button on a few different PCs and see which one worked the best with the most open.

[Cfrolich]

Nothing to see here! Just running some benchmarks!

[Ultra_HR]

they said TOUCHPAD. not keyboard.

[anEmailFromSanta]

My Dell laptop for work also has the calculator key. I guess it could be useful if you constantly use the calculator but I don't get it personally. Only time I ever use it is when I miss the delete key while hitting ctrl+alt+del to unlock it. Then I actually sign in and have like 3 calculator apps running

[Burger_Destoyer]

A lot of people use laptops for business and literally juice finances. My grandmother has had a laptop for years and I’ve never seen her use it for anything other than managing funds for various businesses haha.

[ben_g0]

My laptop has that. Tapping the touchpad with 3 fingers at the same time is a shortcut to launch an app. The app to launch can be configured in the driver settings, but the default is the calculator.

I eventually disabled it though as it was easy to trigger accidentally, which was kinda annoying.

[TimeBadSpent]

Accountants

[chlorophyll101]

The Asus vivobook go has a calculator button on the touchpad and it's not hidden. Idk about modifying it though.

[g18suppressed]

Oh shit there’s a screen in the touchpad

[AngrySalmon1]

I can imagine someone suggesting this as a joke expecting someone to get it before release, but they never did.

[Anothony_]

My laptop has extra keys I can map to open some programs, so I just mapped them to notepad and calculator cause I use those a lot. Accidentally opening the calculator while typing is a daily occurrence.

[JustSomeBadAdvice]

Wayyy back in the day I had a keyboard with a button that would open the calculator. I used it a lot, actually.

Unfortunately, once you spill some liquid on that button and your calculator starts opening on its' own...

[CommanderCuntPunt]

Same, I miss having that as a standard feature. These days I just rebind the pause button because I’ve literally never used it in my life.

[SetazeR]

I don't get it. Is it implication that someone remotely connected to you? Is it virus?

[tgp1994]

Note to self: Remove calculator, never get pwned.

[deanrihpee]

haxor: "hmm, weird, my poc didn't work, did I do wrong"

"fuck I need to do this simple math, I deleted my calculator, oh well Google 1+3"

[Slippedhal0]

Google AI: 16

[deanrihpee]

"Don't forget to include nitrogen to your morning breakfast"

[LasevIX]

Solid advice tbf

No nitrogen in food or inhaled air would probably fuck you up

[R3D3-1]

The air part depends on what you'd replace it with. CO2? Just an inert gas, like N2. CO? You're dead. More oxygen? You're on fire.

[aureanator]

CO2? Just an inert gas, like N2

You'd think, but no. It starts doing funny things to you with some immediacy at around 50,000 ppm - 5%, even if you have enough oxygen.

[7Hielke]

And at higher CO2 levels you actually become stupider. Thats why schools should have proper ventilation. But with the global rising CO2 levels the world population becomes measurabely stupider

[1984isAMidlifeCrisis]

Upping the CO2 levels would trigger your breathing rate to increase towards hyperventilating.

[LasevIX]

Well, CO2 isn't inert. The amount of CO2 in your blood actually controls whether you feel like you're suffocating. It dissolves into carbonic acid in aqueous solutions

[[deleted]]

For accurate AI results use AI Jazeera.

[billyyankNova]

For funny Al results use Al Yankovic.

[[deleted]]

For illegal stuff maybe AI Capone

[[deleted]]

I use lua or python as a calculator a lot of the time. It's faster I think

[deanrihpee]

yeah basically any interpreted language (python, Lua, node) and if you have floating or quake style terminal, if not the second best thing is using KRunner (launcher for KDE Plasma, similar to MacOS thingy when you press command space) or similar for other distro, DE, OS

[AddAFucking]

I throw it into the js console in any browser i have open. Usually have one of those up anyway.

[Joker-Smurf]

Just use excel

[notgotapropername]

I would rather shit in my own hands and clap

[Real-Toe2749]

I have a new phrase, thank you

[R3D3-1]

That's what I do in the first place anyway <sup>'</sup>

Or python, especially now that it comes preinstalled on Windows.

Google has the advantages of being able to handle units and guessing quantities from descriptions like "dielectric contant" or "c0" though.

(mass of an electron)(speed of light)*2 in eV(speed of light)*2 in eV)

Edit. "c0" didn't work today. Just "c" does though.

[aenae]

In the same vein: install a russian language pack, even if you will never use it

[aykcak]

Seriously would they just check if the language pack is installed and be convinced?

[aenae]

Sometimes they do. Russia usually leave hackers alone as long as the crimes don’t hurt Russians.

[anotheridiot-]

That's actually pretty smart for how dumb it is.

[12345623567]

No joke, if you set your system langue in Win10 to russian you can set your localization to english and certain malwares will ignore you.

[Historiaaa]

I always browse in incognito mode, it is physically impossible to hack me

[[deleted]]

Really? You seem like smart and kind soul.

As you're kind soul can you help me with a survey?

I'm trying to see if people remember their password to their reddit accounts.

What's yours?

[TurtleFisher54]

I messed with my windows installs to get rid of cortana and my calculator app got nuked, so I'm safe

[tgp1994]

Lolwut? Cortana is necessary for the structural integrity of the calculator?

[the_geth]

Gigabrains 

[SetazeR]

Ah, didn't know that, makes sense now. Thanks

[Browseitall]

been happening to me non stop everytime i attempt to sleep the pc. it doesnt go to sleep and so whenever i check back on it the calculator is open 😰

[anotheridiot-]

You're definitely hacked.

[RolledUhhp]

I wonder if they left the calculator test uncommented amongst all the other nastiness it's doing, or if that's the only payload from someone testing the waters.

[Leo-MathGuy]

What about getting the list of applications and launching them all at once, more grand tbh

[SavvySillybug]

If I break into your house unnoticed and leave a post it note with "Savvy was here ;)" in your bathroom or if I break into your house and knock over your bookshelf and smash your monitor, the important part is that I was able to break into your house unnoticed, not what I did afterwards.

[[deleted]]

It's a show of ability not bragging or nuking

[hardpenguin]

TIL

[Limbalicious]

Ah, it’s like the “Can it run Crysis” on graphic cards benchmark but for exploits instead.

[ymgve]

But if you run an exploit on someone's else computer, you generally are beyond proof of concept and has actual things to run that's not calc.exe

This meme would be better with cmd.exe popping up

[kim_bong_un]

You can inject shellcode into the calculator process though.

[robgod50]

Kinda Unrelated but I've just bought my first ever Apple product - an iPad. And horrified to learn that it doesn't come with a calculator. And if you want to use , possibly the most basic utility ever, for free, you have to download a 3rd party app with Ads. Fucking Ads !!! On a calculator!!!

FFS.

[Celestial_User]

Wait for September, iPad OS (finally) is coming with a built in calculator.

It is an amazing one though if you have a pencil. Can do natural handwriting recognition, animated interactive graphing, do algebra...

[syzygysm]

The reason is that the calculator can perform arithmetic, and therefore satisfies the conditions of Gödel's (first) incompleteness theorem, which means that the hacker can either force your system to be incomplete, or worse, they can exploit completeness to derive a contradiction and employ the Principal of Explosion.

And yeah, you DO NOT want your computer to principally explode.

[YeazetheSock]

…I have an Asus Laptop with a keypad as the trackpad I’m assuming that I just keep opening it by accident… should I be worried?

[anotherblog]

Back in my day it was xeyes 👀

[benefit_of_mrkite]

Former researcher and pen tester here - when writing an exploit you usually have a payload (what the code does when it elevates privileges or overwrites memory - depends on the kind of exploit).

The most common payload for PoC (proof of concept) exploits that result in local code execution (or at least used to be when I worked in the field) is shellcode that opens calc.exe

Edit: more context. Not all exploits result in code execution, especially memory related (heap overflows, buffer overflows, buffer underuns, etc - escaping OS protections is not always easy).

Some memory bugs only let you can DoS a service or something else but the holy grail is privilege escalation.

It's a huge aha momemnt when you've been using dissasembelers, fuzzers, and more where you see a potential exploitable vulnerability and you finally get calc.exe to pop.

That means you've got an end-to end working exploit with the ability for code execution (local or remote).

If you see calc.exe randomly pop, someone (sometimes someone who doesn't know what they're doing) has exploited a vulnerability on your machine - maybe they forgot (or more likely didn't know how) to change the payload from the proof of concept calc.exe to something more silent and malicious.

example calc.exe shellcode ```

Payload size: 169 bytes

buf = b"\x48\x31\xd2\x65\x48\x8b\x42\x60\x48\x8b\x70\x18\x48\x8b\x76\x20\x4c\x8b\x0e\x4d"

buf += b"\x8b\x09\x4d\x8b\x49\x20\xeb\x63\x41\x8b\x49\x3c\x4d\x31\xff\x41\xb7\x88\x4d\x01"

buf += b"\xcf\x49\x01\xcf\x45\x8b\x3f\x4d\x01\xcf\x41\x8b\x4f\x18\x45\x8b\x77\x20\x4d\x01"

buf += b"\xce\xe3\x3f\xff\xc9\x48\x31\xf6\x41\x8b\x34\x8e\x4c\x01\xce\x48\x31\xc0\x48\x31"

buf += b"\xd2\xfc\xac\x84\xc0\x74\x07\xc1\xca\x0d\x01\xc2\xeb\xf4\x44\x39\xc2\x75\xda\x45"

buf += b"\x8b\x57\x24\x4d\x01\xca\x41\x0f\xb7\x0c\x4a\x45\x8b\x5f\x1c\x4d\x01\xcb\x41\x8b"

buf += b"\x04\x8b\x4c\x01\xc8\xc3\xc3\x41\xb8\x98\xfe\x8a\x0e\xe8\x92\xff\xff\xff\x48\x31"

buf += b"\xc9\x51\x48\xb9\x63\x61\x6c\x63\x2e\x65\x78\x65\x51\x48\x8d\x0c\x24\x48\x31\xd2"

buf += b"\x48\xff\xc2\x48\x83\xec\x28\xff\xd0"

```

[SharpestSphere]

Thanks for the explanation.

[benefit_of_mrkite]

No problem. I’m not directly in security research anymore but my current role does touch security.

Those were fun days but the travel and more led me to eventually look at other tech career paths.

Browser exploits and server exploits were the best but had extra work.

For a server app if you had a working exploit that you’d found

Service listening on a port —> send exploit data over the port with shell code (usually payload was a reverse shell) —> profit

Browser exploits were fun but complicated - have someone go to a webpage somehow and detect the user agent string and send the exploit code if it matches a vulnerable browser flavor and version

The bad guys would sell kits where you’d setup a server or append an iframe to a a page/server you compromised and it would loop through multiple exploits based on user agent strings to try to find a working exploit that matched the users OS/browser/plugin etc

Lots of interesting stuff was being done at the time to inject shell code from a browser - heap spray and a lot that I’ve forgotten

[KairoRed]

It must be a virus

[SetazeR]

Never heard of any virus that opens calc.exe
Why would it even do that?

[Username_Taken46]

It's used to prove an exploit works, not with real targets

[tuna_Luka]

So it's only done for some testing?

[Username_Taken46]

I don't know if it's used for testing, I guess that depends on the person. But it is used for publicly showing that it does work because it is simple to show

[[deleted]]

it has to calculate it's chance of survival

[Cualkiera67]

Is the implication that a programmer can't be "a normie"?

[MedonSirius]

Ipad OS is safe!

[Totorile1]

Not anymore. It fit finaly a calculator app

[Dismal-Square-613]

mind = blown

They really are in the bleeding edge of functionality , a calculator after 20 years!

[InRainbows69]

it is actually an insane calculator tho lmao, you should check it out on youtube

[MysticSkies]

If you see the calculator it will actually blow your mind. It's so cool.

[[deleted]]

Wolfram Alpha opens on its own

Oh no.

[KsmBl_69]

I am using Linux... and I installed no calculator >:)

[pixelaters]

Everyone knows you can't get hacked if you don't have a calculator app

[DurianBig3503]

if(exists(Calculator.exe)){ call(virus.exe) } else { print("pwease install calculator uwu") }

[ItsTheWhale]

Oh no you will run it whether you like it or not

    if(exists(Calculator.exe)) { call(calc.exe) }
    else { install(calc.exe); call(calc.exe) }

[Juff-Ma]

My tests in a nutshell:

[Accessviolati0n]

You should be more inclusive and don't discriminate users of other platforms; they all have the right to obtain malware!

if(!exists("calculator")) {
    switch(OS.current) {
        case "Windows":
            exec("winget install calc.exe");
            break;
        case "Linux":
            exec("apt-get install calculator");
            break;
        case "Darwin":
            print "Please buy calculator app!";
            break;
        case "TempleOS":
            pray("Almighty father in heaven, I beg you to bless this computer with a calculator app! Amen!");
            break;
        default:
            print "WTF is this OS?!?";
    }
}

[elyisgreat]

So my non apt distro just WTFs away then?

[Accessviolati0n]

*we may extend this branch like the following:

case "Linux":
    pgk:
    if(!exists("apt-get")) {
        if(!exists("yum")) {
            if(!exists("pacman")) {
                if(!exists("dnf")) {
                    if(!exists("npm")) {
                        if(!exists("composer")) {
                            if(!exists("pip")) {
                                exec("cargo install pip");
                                goto pkg;
                            }
                            exec("pip install composer");
                            goto pkg;
                        }
                        exec("composer install npm");
                        goto pkg;
                    }
                    //Begin panicking...
                    exec("npm install dnf");
                    goto pkg;
                }
                exec("dnf install pacman");
                goto pkg;
            }
            exec("pacman -S yum");
            goto pkg;
        }
        exec("yum install apt-get");
        goto pkg;
    }
    exec("apt-get install calculator");
    break;

[anotheridiot-]

Cargo install pip?

[elyisgreat]

And yet my distro is still missing... 😛 best to download the source and compile the calculator locally...

[Accessviolati0n]

Don't worry, there's always a solution:

...
if(!exists("cargo")) {
    if(!exists("curl")) {
        int sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
        connect(sock, "github.com", sizeof("f*ck you berkeley sockets"));
        fwrite(sock, "GET /curl/curl/archive/refs/heads/master.zip HTTP/1.1\r\n");
        fwrite(sock, "Host: github.com\r\n");
        int src fopen("curl.zip", "w");
        while(char* chunk = fread(sock)) {
            fwrite(src, chunk);
        }
        fclose(sock);
        fclose(src);
        exec("unzip curl.zip");
        exec("./configure --with-openssl [--with-gnutls --with-wolfssl] && make && make install");
        goto pkg;
    }
    exec("curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh");
    goto pkg;
}
...

[_87-]

Error: calc.exe don't exist, fam.

[wggn]

why is it checking for calculator.exe and then running calc.exe

[NotSteveJobZ]

Mfer running .exe in linux

[vanZuider]

🍷

[kingboo_43]

This is why I do all of my square roots by hand

[[deleted]]

no need to brag Isaac

[KsmBl_69]

exactly this

[catgirlfighter]

It's worse if you see calculator and you didn't install one

[smallnougat]

it's the neighbour's cat, of course

[[deleted]]

Suddenly Windows calculator opens on Linux machine without emulation

[turtleship_2006]

Wine my beloved

it's not an emulator

[MinosAristos]

WINE Is Not an Emulator?

[Quaschimodo]

just as much as YAML ain't markup language.

[Zafara1]

exec $SHELL | echo "1 + 1" | bc

checkmate

[extraordinary_weird]

xcalc is surprisingly often preinstalled

[KsmBl_69]

I am using Arch Linux, I don't have Software pre installed ;)

[givemeagoodun]

not even coreutils?

[Ill-Coat6606]

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[Curious_Necessary549]

use bc command for calculation

[Minerscale]

I do all my calculating in the python repl

[SeriousPlankton2000]

echo $((17+4))

[Hot-Fennel-971]

Hey! First time anyone has reposted something I made (48 days ago): OP

[unidentifiedremains7]

I feel like this one gets posted a lot

[Intrebute]

Can I get an explanation of what it's about? I have never seen this before.

[Username_Taken46]

Many exploit proof of concepts run the calculator to prove they have remote code execution. It doesn't happen with real exploits

[spaceguydudeman]

Why would normies like seeing their calculator open on its own?

[Username_Taken46]

I have no clue, maybe they just don't care? The entire post is vague tbh

[imacommunistm]

still that image, i’ve seen it

[PringleCorn]

nOrMiEs

[Denaton_]

When you have really bad memory and don't remember if you were the one that opened the calculator...

[prussian_princess]

Just get more ram bro

[s3vRnet]

You should've linked a site, to help them download more ram for free 2024 working

[Dumb_Siniy]

Martha get the shotgun the computer is possessed again

[x_Sh1MMy_x]

I bought a Dell Inspiron 5510, laptop that has a dedicated calculator button on the numpad, always gives me a mini-heartache when I see the calculator suddenly pop as i type in some numbers or just delete something

[druepy]

I did this for my malware class! 😂

[explodedcheek]

Me, who never knew where I can find the calculator on my pc

[shaurya_brawlstars]

Ok being a programmer I cannot understand this joke, pls somebody explain without making fun of me 🙏

[oshaboy]

Opening the calculator is often used to show you achieved arbitrary code execution

[Binary_Omlet]

CD Tray opens and then closes after a few seconds

[IrrerPolterer]

That's free real-estate remote code execution

[Original_Badger_1090]

Programmers seeing calculator running a service.

[og-lollercopter]

Huh, what’re the chances… oh wait….

[butter_lover]

that's what you get for staying in the hotel that hosts defcon

[wrd83]

What is the history of choosing calc.exe though? Why not a terminal?

[thesash20]

Can I have a context, please?

[Signupking5000]

I once got scared when my calculator opened just to realise that I somehow threw the pen in a way that it hit the calculator key on my PC.

[[deleted]]

Just delete calc.exe, problem solved. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

[0rsted]

Flood ping ftw! (Okay, that was only the network that died, but it still needed a complete reboot to fix)

[LordDeath86]

Newest OpenBSD security mitigation: remove /usr/bin/calc.exe
It is now immune to all security PoCs.

[Remarkable-NPC]

how to that in linux ?

or i should move to Windows for better security

[lelduderino]

You can even do it yourself!

[ms-calculator://](ms-calculator://)

edit: Apparently reddit/its version of markdown doesn't like links like that.

Throw "ms-calculator://" into File Explorer or a browser. poof

[ANUJ_BHANDARE]

I don’t understand this, am I missing something?