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Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by tgsovlerkhgsel on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:04PM (#33157446)
I'm surprised this works as described (especially with the speed mentioned). If I press CTRL+Alt+T on Ubuntu, I can release it and press T again (by hand!) without it hitting the Terminal window. Reliably, and repeatedly, even with the Terminal app certainly cached, on a modern device with an SSD and low load.

That means an attacker would need to add a wait to risk losing half the payload to the launch animation or whatever causes the delay, and doing it invisibly would be entirely impossible.

Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by KennyBlanken on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:21PM (#33159156)
The script triggers a cycling of the scroll lock indicator to indicate success. They only need try again at some point.