The magic behind the stars
July 14, 2009 – 10:04I know, you´re suppose to look away the moment someone starts typing their password while you´re standing next to it. But i´m curious and this sort of stuff should be secured a lot better. So ever wanted to know what is behind those magic stars in passwords? Say you want to know the password from a Facebook account that somebody else has typed and agreed to save it on that PC. Here are three methods to unravel the magic…
1) In firefox
Let’s start simple. Just copy and paste the following javascript code in your address bar if you are on a website with a login form and the magic stars are displayed.
javascript: var p=r(); function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k<w.length;k++) {var x = ((x) || (z(w[k].document.forms)));g=g+1;}if (!x) alert('Password not found in ' + g + ' forms');}function z(f){var b=false;for(var i=0;i<f.length;i++) {var e=f[i].elements;for(var j=0;j<e.length;j++) {if (h(e[j])) {b=true}}}return b;}function h(ej){var s='';if (ej.type=='password'){s=ej.value;if (s!=''){prompt('Password found ', s)}else{alert('Password is blank')}return true;}}
2) In Internet Explorer
Download Asterisk Key and run it. When you are on a site with a login form showing magic stars, just click Show
Internet Explorer
Passwords
3) FTP and e-mail applications
Try using the free password reader utility SC-PassUnleash. It only works on some FTP clients and email clients.
Download: SC-PassUnleash
4) In Windows
Windows is still the most popular operating system, and the method used to discover the login password is the easiest. The program used is called Ophcrack, and it is free. Ophcrack is based on Slackware, and uses rainbow tables to solve passwords up to 14 characters in length. The time required to solve a password? Generally 10 seconds. The expertise needed? None.
Simply download the Ophcrack ISO and burn it to a CD (or load it onto a USB drive via UNetbootin). Insert the CD into a machine you would like to gain access to, then press and hold the power button until the computer shuts down. Turn the computer back on and enter BIOS at startup. Change the boot sequence to CD before HDD, then save and exit.
The computer will restart and Ophcrack will be loaded. Sit back and watch as it does all the work for your. Write down the password it gives you, remove the disc, restart the computer, and log in as if it were you own machine.
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