EmailDiscussions.com  

Go Back   EmailDiscussions.com > Email Service Provider-specific Forums > Google Gmail Forum
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read
Stay in touch wirelessly

Google Gmail Forum Discussions related to Google's Gmail service should go here: suggestions, tips, comments, requests for help, tech issues etc.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 20 Apr 2025, 02:03 AM   #1
chrisjj
Cornerstone of the Community
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 819
Would you trust this company not to Show Password to a hacker?

See the checkbox.

https://i.imgur.com/mXYNqA1.png
chrisjj is offline   Reply With Quote

Old 20 Apr 2025, 03:12 AM   #2
janusz
The "e" in e-mail
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: EU
Posts: 4,988
All I can see now (Sat, 18:11 UTC) is
Quote:
error "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."
janusz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20 Apr 2025, 05:50 AM   #3
Bamb0
The "e" in e-mail
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 2,087
All I saw was "Javascript is disabled"
Bamb0 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 20 Apr 2025, 05:56 AM   #4
chrisjj
Cornerstone of the Community
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 819
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bamb0 View Post
All I saw was "Javascript is disabled"
Odd. Here it shows the screenshot fine.
chrisjj is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24 Apr 2025, 08:16 AM   #5
Bamb0
The "e" in e-mail
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 2,087
Hmmmmmmmmm very strange.........
Bamb0 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24 Apr 2025, 09:09 AM   #6
n5bb
Intergalactic Postmaster
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Irving, Texas
Posts: 9,042
If you disable JavaScript (or you use a very old unsupported browser), you will have difficulty with many sites.

I can see an image of what appears to be a Google-related window (with the stylish G), a field with poor registration (label overlapping the entry area) and an apparently entered password visible, and an unchecked checkbox labeled ?Show password?. Much of the image is blurred and unreadable. I don?t know exactly what we are supposed to take from this. If your complaint was about the display of what you type in the password box with the ?Show password? box unchecked, then let us know. Of course, this might have been shown by a fake login link in a spam message. Was this a transient condition which went away after rechecking the ?Show password? box a couple of times? it could be due to caching of that page in the browser, where you unchecked the box but the typed password hasn?t disappeared due to caching or connectivity issues.

Again, out of context I don?t know how to constructively comment about the unknown company.

Bill
n5bb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24 Apr 2025, 12:55 PM   #7
Bamb0
The "e" in e-mail
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 2,087
You must be right as Im using FF right now and it says

"If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work"
Bamb0 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 24 Apr 2025, 04:28 PM   #8
chrisjj
Cornerstone of the Community
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 819
Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
Much of the image is blurred and unreadable.
Just the user name and address.

Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
about the display of what you type in the password box with the ?Show password? box unchecked, then let us know.
Yup.

Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
it could be due to caching of that page in the browser, where you unchecked the box but the typed password hasn?t disappeared due to caching or connectivity issues.
Password hiding done server-side?? Wow. Who ever thought thag would be safe...

Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
unknown company.
Google.
chrisjj is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 25 Apr 2025, 07:00 AM   #9
mister
Essential Contributor
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 405
https://ibb.co/GvmJLbQf
mister is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 25 Apr 2025, 08:11 AM   #10
n5bb
Intergalactic Postmaster
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Irving, Texas
Posts: 9,042
Are both of you (chrisjj and mister) stating that when signing in to your google.oom account you see the characters you type in the password field if you have not touched the show passwords checkbox? When I try this I do not see any such issues, and any entered password is also hidden by toggling the show passwords checkbox. For example, if I check the show password box, enter a password, then uncheck the show password box, the password is hidden with blob characters. This seems to me to be a problem in your browser - perhaps you have some browseradd-on which is not allowing the hide password feature to work. See:

https://ibb.co/sd0gNwGc

https://ibb.co/fYSV5xRH

Bill
n5bb is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 29 Apr 2025, 06:03 AM   #11
chrisjj
Cornerstone of the Community
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 819
Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
Are both of you (chrisjj and mister) stating that when signing in to your google.oom account you see the characters you type in the password field if you have not touched the show passwords checkbox?
I am.

Using the latest Google Chrome for Windows 7.

Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
This seems to me to be a problem in your browser
Google's browser

Quote:
Originally Posted by n5bb View Post
- perhaps you have some browseradd-on which is not allowing the hide password feature to work.
Thanks but no.
chrisjj is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT +9. The time now is 10:15 PM.

 

Copyright EmailDiscussions.com 1998-2022. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy