September 27, 2025

Prison Break - breaking out of kiosk mode environments

I’ve did a presentation at the Balkan Computer Congress “BalCCon”" in Novi Sad, Serbia. This talk was about kiosk mode environments and how to break out of them. These environments can be typically found in things like ATMs, visitor registration terminals, self-service order terminals, ticket systems for public transport or info terminals in a museum.

The security of some of these systems is severely broken. This talk tried to be a collection of tips & tricks on how to break out of a kiosk mode. I’m sure a lot of people have stories to share on how they bypassed a kiosk mode environment and I wanted to share mine. There is knowledge, anecdotes and demos.

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