Chris Castiglione » bookmarklet http://www.ccastig.com Chris Castiglione, New Media, Development, Music, University of Amsterdam, New York City Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:28:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 View Password Bookmarklet http://www.ccastig.com/2009/03/25/view-password-bookmarklet/ http://www.ccastig.com/2009/03/25/view-password-bookmarklet/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:44:48 +0000 Chris Castiglione http://www.ccastig.com/?p=495 view password gmail

  1. Go to any login page where you have a password “starred out”
    Ya know, like this:

  2. Copy and paste this code into the address bar in your browser
  3. Watch as the password is decoded into plain text

    4. I couldn’t believe this was possible, but then it started to make sense considering that in HTML source our passwords are plain-text in the value field:

<input type="password" value="1234spaceballs" />
    But what a good way to decode old passwords you may have forgotten (or…uh….decode an ex-girlfriend’s gmail password). And as Lifehacker shows, it’s easy to save this code as a bookmarklet for easy access.

    Click Here To Go To The Example Page

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