Monday, June 24, 2013

How To: Two Ways to View Hidden [Asterisk] Passwords! (No Download Needed)

I know everyone at one point or another has tried to snoop into their friends social media account or any account in general but you don't want to execute your plan from their computer or laptop you want to go on your smartphone and do it so that way they have absolutely no idea. It's actually easy to do especially when they have saved their password onto their web browser but when you try to figure out their password all you see are those asterisks or black solid dots that look the size of a first-grader periods when they learn to write. Well asterisks, black dots, or purple dinosaurs, there are actually two ways for you to see the password without the other person knowing and before I get someone that asks me, no you cannot copy and paste it, it wouldn't work. 
Method #1 - Classic loophole
The first method is a way that I knew but forgot to mention in the video below and that is if the person has saved their password into the browser, then that means within a few clicks you will know more than one of their passwords. Let me explain. Whenever you go to a password protected website your browser will ask you if you want to save that password and that is what allows you to see the black solid dots, even with just a username/email to that site you could get in it easily.

Anyways I call this the classic loophole because all you have to do is look around the browser's settings and bang bang, you just hit the jackpot. For example, if you are on Chrome you can click on settings and under "Passwords and forms" you can click on "Manage saved passwords" and you have access to numerous passwords that are saved to this persons computer.

Method #2 - System.out.print("Using Code");  

The second method is something that I'm sure many of you guys didn't know and that is using the code in the browser. Now I know this sounds scary and believe me it's so much simpler than it sounds. All you have to do is look at the video below and I will answer you question within 10 seconds. 

Enjoy
~techungry1