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  • Sep 17, 2007, 09:36 PM
    slsayantan
    Reading cookies
    Can anybody help me out? Can anyone tell me how to read cookies? Actually a deceiver hacked my password of Google account and using it and it got to know that he knows the process of reading cookies and he got my password from the cookies.. :p... if I can read the cookies I wll be able to know the password that he changed
  • Sep 17, 2007, 10:23 PM
    biggsie
    I did a Google search and found some help -- let me know if this helps

    how to read cookies - Google Search

    JavaScript: reading cookies
  • Sep 18, 2007, 06:32 AM
    ScottGem
    Its unlikely that your password is stored in a cookie. Cookies are also encrypted so that only the site that created them can read them.
  • Sep 18, 2007, 08:54 AM
    retsoksirhc
    I can show you how to read a cookie, but it won't help you get the password to your account. You have to log in with the correct password before it will show up in a cookie, and even then, it will be encrypted like scottgem said (like on this site... it looks like an MD5 hash. It would take several YEARS to decrypt a password from MD5).

    Reading your cookies CAN be useful, however, to see what kinds of things pages are tracking on you, and help keep your personal information secure.

    Just go to the page where you want to see your cookie, and type in the address bar:
    Javascript:alert(document.cookie);

    You may or may not need the ; on the end, but type that in the address bar and hit enter, it shold show the contents of your cookie for that site.

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