Password blocked by hidden field, but in plain text when I view source
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The pretty stars you see are just a property of the input type=password field (as rendered by your web browser) in a form.
The password still needs to get to its destination (hopefully the web server you intend for it to get to) when you hit submit, which is why you see it in the html. Think of the stars as complimentary obfuscation -- especially nice if someone is looking over your shoulder.
The pretty stars you see are just a property of the input type=password field (as rendered by your web browser) in a form.
The password still needs to get to its destination (hopefully the web server you intend for it to get to) when you hit submit, which is why you see it in the html. Think of the stars as complimentary obfuscation -- especially nice if someone is looking over your shoulder.
Should the password also be obfucated, or encrypted in the source code? IE. with symmetric encryption.
It may be a little bit questionable that they're retrieving your password and then populating a form field with it -- that seems unnecessary unless there is a functional reason to do so. It also clearly indicates that they're storing your password instead of a hash.
It may be a little bit questionable that they're retrieving your password and then populating a form field with it -- that seems unnecessary unless there is a functional reason to do so. It also clearly indicates that they're storing your password instead of a hash.
That's pretty insecure if you ask me. Especially for a government website that contains sensitive data.
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