security frustrations
Mar. 5th, 2023 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomikritzerBack in January, in response to a post from someone (probably Synecdochic but possibly over on Twitter), I changed my Dreamwidth password. I used the "how would you like me to generate a password for you, don't worry, you won't have to remember it" autogeneration dealio from my browser. I use Firefox these days for browsing on my laptop, but Chrome on my phone.
My phone doesn't seem to know the new password. No problem, I figured, surely I can dig up the password on my computer and painstakingly type it in and then my phone will also know it? Well, neither Firefox nor Google want to admit to knowing the new password; they're showing the old one. The Dreamwidth site autofills it for me but won't tell me what it is, unless I'm missing something. I am probably going to have to change my password AGAIN.
I am in favor of autogenerated passwords in theory (more secure) and strongly in favor of browsers or Google or whatever remembering them for me (because if I have to type it in, I'm not going to choose a secure one) and god almighty it would be nice if all this tech actually resulted in me being able to get into my accounts, lolsob.
My phone doesn't seem to know the new password. No problem, I figured, surely I can dig up the password on my computer and painstakingly type it in and then my phone will also know it? Well, neither Firefox nor Google want to admit to knowing the new password; they're showing the old one. The Dreamwidth site autofills it for me but won't tell me what it is, unless I'm missing something. I am probably going to have to change my password AGAIN.
I am in favor of autogenerated passwords in theory (more secure) and strongly in favor of browsers or Google or whatever remembering them for me (because if I have to type it in, I'm not going to choose a secure one) and god almighty it would be nice if all this tech actually resulted in me being able to get into my accounts, lolsob.
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Date: 2023-03-06 03:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-30 08:06 pm (UTC)If you have a place that autofill a password and would like to know what it's putting in there, on Chrome what you can do is right-click (ctrl-click on the Mac) on the filled in password field, choose "inspect" and then in the console window that pops up type $0.value and press enter. That should tell you what it autofilled.
I believe that the process on Firefox is nearly identical except that the menu is called "inspect element" instead of "inspect".
...I will note that after choosing inspect I had to click on "console" to get the console window and for some reason I couldn't copy/paste the $0.value part, I had to type it in, and the password appeared with $0.value appended. BUT IT WORKED.