What are some simple hacking tricks on computer and smartphones?

By Omo BaBa Billy

 

I decided to give this one a shot. Heres some simple but (relatively) harmless quick tricks for “hacking”. Even though theyre harmless, I do not condone any illegal actions you use them for, if you do.

1. type=”text”

On sites like twitter, facebook, etc. When you type in your password, youll get something like this:

This is due to code in the HTML telling your browser to not display the text on screen. So how do we change this? Like so:

By going into developer options (Right click>Inspect Element) while hovering over the password box, we’ll get some HTML Code that looks like this

<input class="text-input"  type="password">

Now there could be a whole lot of other stuff in the input tags, but the thing we’re focusing on is the “type” object. By going in and changing the type from “password” to “text” . It will display the password clearly, like so:

(No this isn't my twitter password)

This hack can be used on computers where people have their browser to auto complete the password, the password will be in dots, not text, but changing the HTML code quickly, can result in you gaining the text password, which they very well may use on other stuff.

2. HTML Injections In Forms

Now, while this doesn’t apply for most sites with basic security, its worth trying.

So as you may know, HTML is what makes up the basic viewing of a site. So when you’re on a site where you can post things like a blog, try putting HTML tags around your post, so instead of posting:

“This is my blog!”

Try posting

“<font color=”red”><h1>This is my blog!</h1></font>”

If it was successful, it would post the text in gigantic red text, this can be used to mess with a site in more sinister ways if you try adding <?php ?> tags to the form to get server side information.

I actually cant think of any more right now..Hm.

In any case, stay out of trouble!

Thank You