It all started with me surfing through my old archives looking for a little executable file i used some years ago while trying to recover my old blogger account password… the reason for this search was: I needed to read an asterisk (yeah the glyph ‘*’) password to ascii from a DSL router from one of our worsts internet providers, i found several programs that helped me get the job done, yet im my research i found this[0] piece of code to be inserted in the address bar of the Firefox browser, if you read it, it is quite simple yet clever and fun, the surprising thing for me was that i didn’t know you can pass directly javascript code into a address bar and the browser would execute it, havent made much research about this last yet, but i don’t think of it as a bug but as a feature[1], of course back then (2 or 3 years ago) i didn’t know you can store your html forms logons directly in the Firefox browser.
[0]
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 + “\n”;
};
};
if (s) alert("Passwords in forms on this page:\n\n" + s);
else alert("There are no passwords in forms on this page.");
};
[1] to be researched.
