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[trick] Revealing saved password behind those ******

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victor_rambo
victor_rambo Original post #1
Nov 3, 2007 at 3:22 AM
Ok geeks, I am no expert or a qualified guy in IT! I just discovered this maipulation when I was playing around with MS Frontpage because I had to build my website.


I realized this manipulation myself while working with a webpage. This is useful only when the password has been stored using the Wand manager or Password manager. This tutorial requires Opera browser. It may be possible even with IE and Firefox, but I have not thought over it. Probably, saving the source as a different file may work there.
  1. Open the page into which you want to fill-in your login details(user ID and password). let the page load completely.
  2. Once page loads completely, press Ctrl +F3 to view the source.
  3. Use the find function(Ctrl + F). Search for 'password'.*i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/RohanShenoyThane/opera_password.gif
  4. Once you reach the element for password field as shown in below illustration,change that 'password' to 'text'.*i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/RohanShenoyThane/opera_password2.gif
  5. Now press the 'Apply changes' button which is at left-upper-corner of the tab.The original page will reload and changes will take effect
  6. Now click that 'wand button' and Voila,see the password!*i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/RohanShenoyThane/opera_password4.gif

Source:myself :D
Also posted it on my blog!
RCuber
RCuber #2
Nov 3, 2007 at 3:31 AM
Good find Rohan ;)
~Phenom~
Nov 3, 2007 at 3:34 AM
duh!!! what kinda tutorial is this ??? whats the use ???
@charan , what good find ??? this is elementary of HTML. we have just changed the password field to text and that too just on our computer.
Am I missing something???? I seriously dont understand whats the use and what is "Good find" in it ????

PS:Ok , I just saw that you are new to it. Keep exploring.
V
vaibhavtek #4
Nov 3, 2007 at 8:10 AM
ya there is nothing trick you just change the pass field to text field...
RCuber
RCuber #5
Nov 3, 2007 at 2:23 PM
@~Phenom~ & vaibhavtek .. This is not about just changing the "Password" filed to "Text" field. please do the same trick with IE or Firefox in less than 15 seconds,reload the page and login.

Editing and reloading the source within Opera ....that was the "Good Find" , I didnt know about this feature of applying the changes to the Source from within Opera.
~Phenom~
Nov 3, 2007 at 2:32 PM
^^ I still couldnt get the trick. Am I too dumb to understand the obvious ???
RCuber
RCuber #7
Nov 3, 2007 at 2:42 PM
@~Phenom~ arre yar.. The main point what I am speaking is that opera's inbuilt Source editor. You can just edit the source of the page you are viewing and load it immediately. This is not possible (IMO) in firefox and IE..
in IE by default you will get just a source in notepad. where as in FF you will get its inbuilt source viewer in which you cannot edit it.

I am in no way trying to offend you :)
V
vaibhavtek #8
Nov 3, 2007 at 4:11 PM
that makes the tutorial a nice one. :cool:
~Phenom~
Nov 3, 2007 at 4:13 PM
@charan , point taken. :)
victor_rambo
Nov 3, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Does in work in IE and FF too? Because I thing the file has to ber served from the server and not local disk because URLs are relative and not absolute?
V
vaibhavtek #11
Nov 3, 2007 at 6:56 PM
ya did it work on IE as I am using that. :eek:
ray|raven
ray|raven #12
Nov 5, 2007 at 4:41 PM
There's a simpler script to do reveal passwords:

Create a bookmark and give the following as the address:
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 + "\n"; } } if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();

Once the passwords are typed/auto-filled by the browser run this bookmark.
It will show all the passwords in the page.

Its Not Mine but found it somewhere , dont remember where though .
been using since a long time.

Regards,
ray
krates
krates #13
Nov 5, 2007 at 6:28 PM
hey lol tutorial i was about to find my sister password :(
::.BLOOD!GOD.::
Dec 1, 2007 at 1:46 AM
That was a great trick worked on FF too
thanks mate
RCuber
RCuber #15
Dec 1, 2007 at 1:48 AM
@ray .. thanks for the tip, somehow I missed your post :p
naveen_reloaded
Dec 1, 2007 at 1:03 PM
I will try this and tell whether it works
Gigacore
Gigacore #17
Dec 1, 2007 at 1:08 PM
I never knew this.. thanks *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/106.gif
krates
krates #18
Dec 1, 2007 at 3:05 PM
well this just simple html what you are saying :D:D this tutorial i think is of no use cause nobody is going to open a saved page to enter his pass and login id
man
T
Dec 3, 2007 at 10:24 PM
kushagra_krates@yahoo.com said:
well this just simple html what you are saying :D:D this tutorial i think is of no use cause nobody is going to open a saved page to enter his pass and login id
man

hy mak dat page home na..... simpl... den evry1 will be usin dat..
T
ThinkFree #22
Dec 5, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Thanks
anurodhjindal
Dec 6, 2007 at 9:58 AM
@vaibhavtek...i am also doing in IE 6.0 but it doesn't happen anything.

I had opened Yahoo.com and there when i press Ctrl+F3 it doesn't do anything. After that i manually go into View->source and change the password field to text. But nothng happens...
R
Mar 29, 2008 at 1:58 AM
There's a simpler script to do reveal passwords:

Create a bookmark and give the following as the address:
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 + "\n"; } } if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s); else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");})();

Once the passwords are typed/auto-filled by the browser run this bookmark.
It will show all the passwords in the page.

Its Not Mine but found it somewhere , dont remember where though .
been using since a long time.

Regards,
ray
hey thanx for this nice tricky javascript
i liked it
vandit
vandit #25
Mar 30, 2008 at 5:45 PM
this trick will be useful if you are in a cybercafe and someone has ticked the rem. me on this comp. button.....or turned on the pass.manager..
siddes
siddes #26
Mar 31, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Revelation didnt work on my Mozilla FF.

As for the "trick" that the thread starter discovered, I can make out your new to HTML.

Keep exploring.
victor_rambo
Mar 31, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Revelation didnt work on my Mozilla FF.

As for the "trick" that the thread starter discovered, I can make out your new to HTML.

Keep exploring.
lol......anybody told you that tricks need to be very very difficult to understand? :D
Everybody loses interest in the trick once the logic(however small it is) is out. So I don't blame you. :D
siddes
siddes #28
Mar 31, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Ok, i just checked ur posts and saw the mH CET site uv started.
Given that, ur posting the 'trick' seems weird.

Whats funnier is that u actually thought it to be a trick.
Tech.Masti
Mar 31, 2008 at 11:40 PM
didn't think this way, thanks,