Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Reveal the passwords behind the asterisks
by Brad Linder Oct 4th 2007 at 8:00PM
Snadboy's Revelation is an unfortunately named application that makes recovering long forgotten passwords a snap. Sometimes. All you have to do is run the application and drag and drop a little target button over to an asterisked-out password. SnadBoy's Revelation will show what's hidden beneath those big black circles and let you copy the text to a clipboard.
Unfortunately, this won't work with all passwords. A lot of newer programs hide your passwords somewhere else, so those asterisks are really just place holders. For example, SnadBoy's revelation won't help you recover any website passwords stored in Firefox or Internet Explorer. But the application is still more than worth its price, considering it's free.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Onshot417 said 9:54PM on 10-04-2007
"asterisk revealer" is better as it is a window that sits in the background and documents all asterisks. of course it will not work on IE but none do that i know of other than "System Information"
I cant find it online really so i uploaded it to filefront here:
http://hosted.filefront.com/oneshot417/
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Brian Hebbes said 10:54PM on 10-04-2007
Portable Roboform free version has only one limitation, no more than ten logins. There are workarounds, eg. multiple identities, safenotes.
It's very good, and you can take it with you on a USB stick (best on an MPLAT FlashPhone along with your Voip and Google Toolbar)
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Fred Thompson said 8:45AM on 10-05-2007
Asterisk Key http://www.lostpassword.com/asterisk.htm will also show passwords.
What does Portable Roboform have to do with revealing obscured passwords? Who knows. Don't drink and surf...
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Stuart Halliday said 10:42AM on 10-05-2007
Och, there are a dozen of these programs on the market. Most are free.
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Michael C. Sherrin said 9:39AM on 10-05-2007
I find this is more important for Firefox. I have far more online passwords that I can never remember (especially now that I got a new computer).
*******
Michael C. Sherrin
http://www.prodigeek.com/
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z0iid said 5:36PM on 10-05-2007
siw.exe (System Information Widget) has this same ability. written by Gabriel Topala, under Tools - Eureka. (it sees pw's in IE, but probably not IE7)
Plus siw is useful for many other things.
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fred said 9:22AM on 10-06-2007
Firefox, installed with DOM inspector, needs only the "InspectThis" extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1913).
Right click on the asterisked password field, then select "Inspect element" from the resulting context menu. A DOM inspector window opens, centering on the password field: select the "Javascript object" view in the DOM Inspector's right panel, expand "Subject", and the hidden characters will be shown in a string next to the "value" Property.
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WL said 9:17AM on 10-20-2007
I love this program it comes in handy every once in a while, been using it since win 95
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