988159 - Passwords easily hackable via developer console

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 933223

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[amitjoki]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.154 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

STEP 1:      Click the right button of the mouse on  the password slot where the password is written.

STEP 2:      Click on the option inspect element in it.

STEP 3:      Developer Console Will Appear.

STEP 4:      Double click on the  "password" written  in the highlighted codes. Doing this "password" alone gets highlighted.

STEP 5:      Type "text" in place of "password" and click enter.

STEP 6:      Now you have the password written in asterisks or dots before in just plain text.


Actual results:

Passwords were visible in clear text


Expected results:

Changing the type of input of password shouldn't be allowed

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

(In reply to amitjoki from comment #0)
> Changing the type of input of password shouldn't be allowed

Why? That's the whole point of using a developer tool, to be able to tinker with the page.