Demystify those mystical Asterisks

You know how you start out to do something and end up learning something completely different. One of those rare moments happened yesterday. I had finally gotten fed up of the stupid login screen that my reliance broadband connection throws at me after every 20 minutes of inactivity. So based on something that my friend Mihir (taurius1) gave me I headed out into the brave new world of scripts. A lill fiddling around and asking the mighty Google yielded some neat lill scripts and that too in python :) I was a happy camper.

Then comes the time to test it all out and I hit my first road block. I have conveniently forgotten my login credentials for the broadband service. DAYMN ! But wait I have it stored in my browser. Which is why I could log in and surf all this while. So I did indeed have my password but it was hiding from me in plain sight behind those pesky lill asteriks. There had to be some way I could have a peek behind em to get to my real password. Asked almighty Google a solution to this and it threw this nifty lill jewel my way:

document.getElementById('password').type='text';

And Volaaa! I Has Password! woot! What I had essentially done is change the password field into a text field. Since the text field does not mask its contents with asterisks I could now see my password. Which now lead me to think I could write a generic script which if I pasted in the browsers address bar would seek out all those pesky lill asterisks. ~Evil Grin~

So after a lill bit of tweaking and a quick run though the closure compiler me has this to off to the world.

javascript:(function(){for(var a=document.forms,b=0;b<a.length;++b)for(var c=a[b],d=0;d<c.length;++d)if(c[d].type.toLowerCase()=="password")c[d].type="text";})();

Enjoy stealing unsuspecting stored password that innocently were left unattended on a pc .. MUHUHAHAHAHA ! oh wait I have a couple of those on my pc .. ~Quickly wipes em out using CCleaner~

Which reminds me that I still haven't written that script I initailly started to write. Gets back to learning Python.

PS: image taken from here

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