Hacker Screen
A full screen terminal that fills with green text every time a key is pressed. It looks like somebody is deep inside a system they should not be in. They are not: the text is written in advance, and every keystroke just pushes a few more characters of it onto the screen.
This is a prank. It types fake output from an invented computer, and that is all it does - it touches nothing on your device, connects to nothing, and installs nothing. Do not use it to convince anyone that a real system has been broken into.
Press Esc at any point to come straight back to this page.
How to run it
- Open it full screen. The browser chrome is the one thing that gives the game away, so losing it does most of the work.
- Hit any keys you like. It does not matter which - each one adds the next few characters, so a fast, confident nonsense rhythm reads better than careful typing.
- On a phone or tablet there is no keyboard to hit, so it types by itself. On a computer you can switch that on too, with the button at the bottom of the screen.
- Press Esc to stop. On a touch screen, tap the screen to bring the controls back and use Exit.
What it is doing, honestly
The whole page is one block of text that was written by hand and shipped with the site. A keystroke moves a marker a few characters along it and draws what it passed; at the end it wraps around to the start and goes again. There is no connection to anything, no reading of files, and no record of what you pressed. The occasional ACCESS GRANTED panel is part of the same block of text, timed to appear when the typing reaches it.
Frequently asked questions
Is any of this real?
None of it. The hosts, the addresses, the fingerprints and the error messages were all invented for this page. Nobody is being scanned, no ledger is being repaired, and no vault is being opened. It is a costume, not a tool.
Does it access anything on my computer?
No. It is an ordinary web page painting text. It cannot see your files, your other tabs or your network, because a browser does not let a page do any of that. Nothing you type is read, stored or sent anywhere - the keystrokes are counted, not recorded.
How do I get out of it?
Press Esc and you land back on this page. If you are on a touch screen with no Esc key, tap the screen once to bring the controls back and press Exit. Closing the tab works too - nothing is left running.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, and it starts typing on its own there, since there is no keyboard to hammer. On iPhone and iPad the browser is not allowed to cover the whole screen, so the address bar stays visible and the effect is a little weaker than on a laptop.
What is the text it types?
Original writing, made up for this page: a fictional maintenance session on a fictional network, with build output, a stack trace, a hex dump and a port scan mixed in. It is not copied from a film, from another prank site, or from anybody's real source code.