How to steal passwords!
ramanujam November 18th, 2006
Many of the net users have got addicted to Mozilla and with the release of Firefox 2.0 there is no turn back. Coming to the point….Here is one cheap method to steal the passwords from someone’s computer(a person who uses Mozilla Firefox as the browser). One good feature with Firefox is the remember password option and almost everyone who uses Firefox uses this option. Whenever your friend gets off from his system, there you go…..Hurry up! few seconds u can get all the passwords that he has saved…..
Click on options–>Tools–>Security
In the dialog box which you get, in the second row click on “Show Passwords“
It first shows all the user names(websites) for which you have enabled the remember password option and on confirmation it shows all the passwords.
If you wish that this is insecure in your system you can set a master password but the great disadvantage is that you have to type the master password every time you open the browser so as to enable the remember password feature.
I found this when this kedi bugger was trying this in my system.
Other Cheap tricks!
*The best way is to peep over the shoulder when a person types his password.
*Many people see the keyboard while typing their passwords and mostly use the “tab” key to go to the password text box after typing the user name. Simple, just when the person presses the “tab”, casually hold the mouse and place the pointer in the user name text box and when he rises his head he (we) can see his password in the user id column!( I am not kidding, this has worked out many times and that too when many friends sit along in groups)
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almost everyone who uses Firefox uses this option.
I don’t use that option!Ha!
BTW,think this is mighty unethical.
Say if u are the only person using your comp,then this feature is damn cool….
You key in ur pass word every time???
Waste of time;)
Unethical ah….hehe!!!who cares….
@Jump:
Yawn. Why don’t you come up with something more interesting.
//when he rises his head he (we) can see his password in the user id column!
You mean to say people look at the keyboard when they type their password… What sad asses they must be, if they can’t type even their passwords without searching for the keys … This automatically implies they are the losers who use emails to transfer study/lecture notes … so no point getting their passwords, cauze once you log into their account its gonna be plain bullshit boring emails from his uncle and his brother and his gay friends who send him “Send this to ten girls if you wanna kiss the girl of ur dream, if u dont send in 10 mins u will die a virgin” mails.
What is your system password then? Social sharing windows PC is always a problem. Thank your friend that he did not delete your files. Do not keep your machine in Internet and use it for serious business and credit card transactions. Windows is not safe.
@sagaro
ok…will try
the point in this case…i don’t want the password of such useless chaps….just for fun and to see their face reactions:)
@mac
do u do marketing for mac????
Thanks for the great piece of advice;)
dei dog…I just asked u whether u no abt tat saving pass thing r not and u didn’t even know wat i was doin…I’am not goin to do anythin by knowin ur pass, as a matter of fact I didn’t even click that “Show Password” button….
I was jst explaining u…
Sollikudhutha K.D. naa solre…
iru di vachikuren….[:d]
remove my lj link,please.its now personal!!:D
ok……you could have clicked it, but great you told me about that…..
@hamsini
Ok….done,
linked to ur blogspot:)