Electronic Application Technology
by clorox
I'm sure most people searching for a job have filled out an electronic application at a business on one of their machines.
I know about four months ago my friend was looking for a job and I figured I'd help him find one. No one was hiring so he decided to try a store in the mall. The store was JCPenney. We were brought into a room with two computers. He sat down and started to fill out his application and I, being the curious one I am, snooped around.
The application itself was an HTML file that was being shown in IE in full-screen mode.
Ctrl+Alt+Del did no good so I Ctrl+Esc'd and it brought up the taskbar with the "Start" button and the task tray.
The Start menu was bare, no way for me to execute an application there, just a shutdown button. But in the task tray they had McAfee VirusScan running.
I'm not sure if it was a corporate enterprise version, but I double-clicked it to try to find a way I could access the hard drive. There was a field with a "Browse" button next to it where you could change your virus database and it let me view the hard drive as well as the networked drives. I opened a Notepad file just so I could see TXT files easier in the browser. I was snooping around when I came upon a folder in the C: drive called apps.
The text files in this folder were titled by a nine digit number. I opened one of the text files and it was Amie Laster's application. Formatted in this way:
The others were exactly like this so anyone could just sit down here, access everyone's applications, and pretty much exploit the person using this data.
I sent an anonymous letter to the district office. I'm not sure if it's been fixed or not but I thought that people who are entering in critical information on a computer need to know where it is going and who has access to it.
Other places you might find interesting:
BestBuy
On their employee PCs near the CDs, Ctrl+A+Z three times brings up the employee toolkit (this varies by store but it's combination of Ctrl, Alt, or Shift with two keys on the keyboard), which you need a login to use.
On the demo PCs you can either double-click the numbers on the right-hand side or press Ctr+M to minimize the advertisement so you can access the drive. Their laptops usually have Internet access due to a Wi-Fi connection in the store.
Circuit City
Their PCs are open and have a connection to the net. The world is yours.
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