- Go to any login page where you have a password “starred out”
Ya know, like this: - Copy and paste this code into the address bar in your browser
- Watch as the password is decoded into plain text
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.
