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From Security View: You think that password protecting your browser profile will not let intruders to crack your password. This is really a threat to your security. Consider a situation that you are not there when one of you friends is accessing your PC and he/she just use the following trick to know your password because you keep your password saved in your PC. It is recommended that you should never keep your password saved in your Browser.

From Hackers View: Its a chance for you that you can know password of anyone if you have access to its system. Say you want to hack your friends password, you go to his house, sit on his PC, use the following trick and get his password without letting him know that something has happened.

Where it will be used?

I won’t tell you where to use it. Crazy user always know how such information can be used. The information provided below is for study purpose only.

Which browser to use?
It’s a cross browser means you can use chrome, firefox, IE whichever you want.

Steps for retrieving password
This trick works for all whether you have saved your password to make them autofill or you just type every time,

Ok to start with, I have created a new IN email acccount named test14@in.com whose password I am gonna crack.

So as you can see in the picture my in username is test14

Now just right click on the page and click on View Source, now press CTRL+F (Find) and type Type=”password”

If you got that (Type=”password”) in the source file than you can proceed but if you won’t than hard luck for you!

Here you can see that id=”f_pwd” this is what we need. just copy what ever be the id.

Now half of our work is done, now all you have to do is replace this id with the youridhere entry in the below javascript.

javascript:void(document.getElementById(‘youridhere’).type=’text’)

in our case it will be

javascript:void(document.getElementById(‘f_pwd’).type=’text’)

Now just copy paste this javascript to the address bar and click enter and you are able to see your password.

As soon as you hit enter you are able to see you password in your password box

The id is not same in all email providers.
For Gmail - void(document.getElementById(‘Passwd’).type=’text’)

For Yahoo! Mail - void(document.getElementById(‘passwd’).type=’text’)

For IN Mail - void(document.getElementById(‘f_pwd’).type=’text’)

For Mail.com - void(document.getElementById(‘password’).type=’text’)

What this javascript has done?
This javascript has made the password box changed to normal text box, therfore you are able to see the written text there.

Is there any software that can do this for me?
Though the above tutorial is really easy but for those who don’t want to go in detail they can use Asterisk Logger

I have a doubt?
If you have any sort of doubt in above given tutorial than leave a reply, we will try to sort that out, and if anyone know some other better software or tutorial for the same than please let me know.

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