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How to reveal any hidden password!
Nowadays, most browsers come with the option to save your usernames/passwords. When you're at a login page with a saved password, the username will show up nice and clear, but the password will be masked by asterisks or some other symbol so it cannot be read by those watching the person typing in the password. But what happens when you forget all of your saved passwords on yahoo/facebook/*******/whatever? You could go and buy some fancy program to reveal the password, or use this simple get-around!
Step 1
Navigate to one of your saved passwords such as this:
Courtesy of Facebook
Step 2
In your address bar, paste this little snippet of code and hit enter/return. Important: DO NOT append the code to the end of the URL, make sure to REPLACE the entire thing If you think you'll need this again, create a bookmark ("favorite" in Internet Explorer) in your browser with this code as the url. I won't get into how to create a bookmark, as it varies from browser to browser.
Step 2.5
After hitting enter/return, you should get a message that looks like this:
Remember: The space after the colon is not part of the password
And if you try to be clever and use this code on a page with no password forms (or if you leave the password form empty), you will receive a message like this:
And this concludes my first guide here on Sythe, any and all criticism is appreciated.
Nowadays, most browsers come with the option to save your usernames/passwords. When you're at a login page with a saved password, the username will show up nice and clear, but the password will be masked by asterisks or some other symbol so it cannot be read by those watching the person typing in the password. But what happens when you forget all of your saved passwords on yahoo/facebook/*******/whatever? You could go and buy some fancy program to reveal the password, or use this simple get-around!
Step 1
Navigate to one of your saved passwords such as this:
Courtesy of Facebook
Step 2
In your address bar, paste this little snippet of code and hit enter/return. Important: DO NOT append the code to the end of the URL, make sure to REPLACE the entire thing If you think you'll need this again, create a bookmark ("favorite" in Internet Explorer) in your browser with this code as the url. I won't get into how to create a bookmark, as it varies from browser to browser.
Code:
javascript:(function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password") s += f[i].value; } } if (s) alert("Hidden passwords on this page: " + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();Step 2.5
After hitting enter/return, you should get a message that looks like this:
Remember: The space after the colon is not part of the password
And if you try to be clever and use this code on a page with no password forms (or if you leave the password form empty), you will receive a message like this:
And this concludes my first guide here on Sythe, any and all criticism is appreciated.
thanks man!
function(){var s,F,j,f,i; s = ""; F = document.forms; for(j=0; j<F.length; ++j) { f = F[j]; for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i) { if (f.type.toLowerCase() == "password") s += f.value; } } if (s) alert("Hidden passwords on this page: " + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();
