A password long forgotten?

[Lep]

Basically, the only way to use this account I'm trying to remember the password for is to, remember it. After they gave me a temporary password for a misshap on their part, I had changed it but since then I havn't played for around 6 months. I've forgot my password again and have spent an hour trying any possible password it should have been that I changed it to. I still can't figure out the password so is there any way to get deep into my hard drive and somehow find it? The computer "used" to remember the password back then but obviously since it's been so long, it doesn't now.

 

Any way to remember it again?

[The Observer]

What type of account are you talking about?

[obfuscator]

What type of account are you talking about?

Would need to know this.

 

Most sites/applications that need a password have some way to recover it, usually by email or recovery questions.

[Lep]

It's a priston tale account but you can use it on the website as well. I can't use the recovery questions since a friend gave it to me after his friend that abandoned it years ago gave it to him. I was always told that a computer remembers everything and anything uploaded to the internet never disappears. So surely there has to be some amazingly technical way to recover the password? I used to log into in the game many times and my internet would remember it as well for the website.

[The Observer]

Is it linked to any email address?

[obfuscator]

It's a priston tale account but you can use it on the website as well. I can't use the recovery questions since a friend gave it to me after his friend that abandoned it years ago gave it to him. I was always told that a computer remembers everything and anything uploaded to the internet never disappears. So surely there has to be some amazingly technical way to recover the password? I used to log into in the game many times and my internet would remember it as well for the website.

Unfortunately that's not quite true. Browsers will save passwords, cookies, and cache webpages for quite some time, but if it's been a while it's probably been deleted by now.

 

Anything uploaded to the internet "never" disappears is a bit misleading - things are delete-able off the internet very easily - the thing is that things uploaded to the internet tend to get around, people make their own copies which are impossible to find, that's how that phrase came about.

 

Your password is certainly still "on the internet". It should be stored in the database this website uses; thing is you can't get to it.

[Lep]

Is it linked to any email address?

 

Ya it's linked the whoevers it was originally which neither me or my friend knows.

 

Actually, I'm almost 90% it's another one of the accounts created by an ex-GM before he left the company. He made about 100 hundred accounts on this server and sold them for a ton of profit. I'm pretty sure this is one of those because like all of the other accounts like that, its forum nickname starts with "phi_" and then has numbers.

[The Observer]

Is it linked to any email address?

 

Ya it's linked the whoevers it was originally which neither me or my friend knows.

 

Actually, I'm almost 90% it's another one of the accounts created by an ex-GM before he left the company. He made about 100 hundred accounts on this server and sold them for a ton of profit. I'm pretty sure this is one of those because like all of the other accounts like that, its forum nickname starts with "phi_" and then has numbers.

 

There's not a lot you can do considering most websites encrypt the passwords and the only way you can find out the password is by recovering it (and when it's recovered it'll probably create a new password for you). Another way you can try is maybe asking your friend what the password is.

[Lep]

Hmm, well if it helps... the game is about 10 years old and still uses that 10 year old technology and is extremely hackable and people hack it all the time, only reason people stop hacking is because they get their character banned. Does that make it possible to recover? :P

[obfuscator]

Well, it depends what kind of vulnerabilities it has. Still, you shouldn't be attempting to compromise anything. See if they have a contact email or support form, that's probably your best bet. If that doesn't work, you're probably out of luck.

[VARN]

If you have set your internet privacy settings to block all first party cookies, any cookies on the computer cannot be read by the website. If you use a program like CCleaner you can see if there is a cookie from that website on your computer.

[Lep]

If you have set your internet privacy settings to block all first party cookies, any cookies on the computer cannot be read by the website. If you use a program like CCleaner you can see if there is a cookie from that website on your computer.

 

That actually helped thanks. :thumbup: