How To Reveal Asterisk (******) Passwords?

If you want to reveal the passwords hidden behind Asterisk (****) follow the steps given below:

1) Open the Login Page of any website. (eg. http://www.gmail.com)

2) Type your 'Username' and 'Password'.

3) Copy and paste the JavaScript code given below in your browser's address bar and press 'Enter'.

javascript: alert(document.getElementById('Passwd').value);

Above script is tested on orkut, gmail, hotmail, rediff login pages! Some login pages have frames so the above may fail! In fireox you can also right-click on any frame and can open that frame separately in different window or tab and then can use any of above script!

Note: Try this code also.

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 ' '; } } if (s) alert('Passwords in forms on this page: ' s); else alert('There are no passwords in forms on this page.');})();

Above script will display the passwords of all masked fields including password values in a dialog box. Have problem detecting actual text in fields on IFRAME pages though.

4. As soon as you press 'Enter', This will open an alert message revealing the password in cleartype.