Did you know these commands? I have videos on my channel showing this in more detail (including copying the details).

@aaronsingh2369

9 ай бұрын

Yes sir David I knew it😅 ❤ from India❤

@user-sm3mk3di6w

9 ай бұрын

@davidbombal can you show us, also how can we see the wifi password from our Android or Iphone phone thank you:)

@AtharvaKanade-vt5so

9 ай бұрын

Jay Shri Ram David Sir I knew this but the problem is that the networks which are already connected are only shown, access of other networks of our surrounding is not possible

@dinghoitsolutions3070

9 ай бұрын

@davidbombal can you show us how we can see the wifi password from our Android.?

@Thund3r18

9 ай бұрын

Wow thank you

Just to clarify , that‘s to see the ones you are already connect to… not random new ones 😊

@tonyfremont

9 ай бұрын

That's the point though, stealing their credentials.

@uzmanyagiz

9 ай бұрын

True

@acafax

9 ай бұрын

Showing off fairy tales for idiots. Most off the didn't even try. Thx doc.

@crowbaril903

9 ай бұрын

Except for 2FA if the place even uses email

@danielstarr8957

9 ай бұрын

What if I'm remoted into someone's PC?

If someone is on your command line, you have way bigger problems to worry about than your Wi-Fi password. They're already on your system and your network.

@LimitedWard

9 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I was thinking. If they already have direct access to your system, what's the point? Though this does demonstrate how a hacker could use your machine to hop over to another one with higher privileges on the same network. So from an individual perspective, this isn't all that useful, but if you're trying to hack a corporation it would be much more powerful.

@ShortFilmVD

9 ай бұрын

Surely this needs a privileged shell right? Or at least user password reconfirmation? Windows can't be that weak???

@guardianfox2

9 ай бұрын

That's all this guy does. He does boring generic stuff and tries to make it look scary.

@quercus3290

9 ай бұрын

I guess its just a handy tip if cant be bothered to look under your modem for the millionth time to get the silly password.

@Pike737

9 ай бұрын

​@@guardianfox2true 😂

This is like breaking into someones house to steal their house keys.

@atomicgunpla

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@digitalcurrents

8 ай бұрын

How to sneak onto dad's computer while he's gone for a bathroom break and get the wi-fi password while grounded.

@megatu1915

7 ай бұрын

More like giving someone an Amazon package and that has a robot inside it to steal the keys and give you access to the home.

@C45p3r

7 ай бұрын

Copy* not steal.

@melihtopcu97

7 ай бұрын

exactly 😂😂

If a hacker had acces to my computer's command line, I'd have far bigger problems than the wifi password.

@panayotivanov8607

7 ай бұрын

but it can be a vector of propagation

@Odsku

7 ай бұрын

@@panayotivanov8607 very rarely do they ever have a purpose to steal em cuz u can already access to the network

Those uninitiated might think that the commands can grab the PSK from ANY Wi-Fi network in the range that the Wi-Fi interface "is seeing" right now. These are only the networks that the computer has connected to in the past and has the credentials saved. Just to be clear :)

@lorddraagon

9 ай бұрын

I can see my old PCs connected WiFis as well. I think my MS account shares the wifi passwords to all PCs in my account

@livsstilen

9 ай бұрын

correct.

@aclearlight

8 ай бұрын

Thank you...breath rate returning to normal now...

Yes, that's true. I used those commands back in college where they had super-fast internet, but it was only for the teachers. During a break, I asked a teacher if I could use their computer for a short while. I ran the commands, and that's how I managed to access the teacher's unrestricted internet. 😂😂

@Frissdas1207

9 ай бұрын

Failure on the teacher for letting a student use their computer. Poor security training.

@fixer1140

9 ай бұрын

What a chad 😂

@wizzman47

9 ай бұрын

Lucky you. Back in the day did dial up. Netstat and arp

@iCore7Gaming

9 ай бұрын

​@@Frissdas1207also failure on the school for not using WPA2 enterprise

@_m.a-x

9 ай бұрын

that's why 802.1x

For anyone curious, the "pipe" | keyword is used to redirect the output of a command into something else, like a text file or in this case another command.

@mage3690

8 ай бұрын

My (second) favorite form of piping is "2> nul", equivalent to "2>/dev/null" on Linux. Who needs error messages most of the time, if it didn't work I can just run it again and print the error messages this time.

It's important to know that this only extracts the saved passwords. And with sufficient privileges you can extract anything. That would be like saying that someone inside your house can steal your microwave.

@darrain.7

8 ай бұрын

Not even stealing a microwave because that would be actually stealing something. Here it's more like someone inside your house can use your water. If there's someone inside your house, you have bigger problems to think about than water

@Alkis05

8 ай бұрын

But it could have been saved in hash instead of plain text, which I suppose he is saying.

@danlightened

8 ай бұрын

​@@darrain.7Exactly! I was thinking this when he started talking about hacking.

@2wr633

8 ай бұрын

@@Alkis05 if it were saved in hash it would defeat the entire purpose of creating the wifi profile in the first place

@Alkis05

8 ай бұрын

@@2wr633 You were right, I misspoke. I meant to say encrypted. Wifi passwords are encrypted and can only be decrypted with super user privilege, like OP said.

A minute of silence for anyone who think this command can get you password from random available wifi around you.

@CloudzyFX

2 ай бұрын

LMAO

I mean if some hacker got into your computer, and got admin privileges (required for the commands), you have bigger things to worry about than getting your WiFi password stolen.

@chroprs

3 ай бұрын

"Here's how hackers can get your wifi password, Step 1, they must be on your computer using your cmd" I feel like we've already missed a few steps.

@chroprs

3 ай бұрын

@@Alsehr_ If the hacker doesn't do anything obvious and your anti-virus software never detected them, then you wouldn't know. The only time you'd start suspecting something is if the hackers do something obvious like create popups on your screen, send mass emails with your email, your cursor moving on it's own, etc.

The paswords are just the saved ones that YOU had to type in on YOUR machine to connect to whatever wifi access points that required a pssword. its literally where your computer looks when it needs to connect to an already established access point. And for those of you saying "ohhh once someone has your wifi password youre compromised. Like no, just change it, just change the whole network name whike youre at it. If youre really at the point that someone has backdoored your machine and os offloading info to their own server, then you have much bigger issues.

*Missing part of the instructions:* To actually get the KEYS, the whole command must be done in a command window opened with that computer's *Administrator privileges.*

@oscarbarnes2130

9 ай бұрын

If they've got access to your computer, that's not too hard. A lot of people, especially those who aren't very tech savvy don't make you enter a password to run s administrator

@YodaWhat

9 ай бұрын

@@oscarbarnes2130 Sure, but if you don't trust everyone who has that kind of access, then you *should* require a password for *Admin.*

@MrDome110

9 ай бұрын

not true... I just tried it on the computer where Im just a user, not admin and CMD allowed me to see wifi stores passwords...

@YodaWhat

9 ай бұрын

@@MrDome110 Maybe the security is not set up properly there? Without Admin rights, you should only be able to see the wifi networks, not the passwords.

@MetaphoricMinds

9 ай бұрын

@@YodaWhatBut It's true. When running command prompt in standard mode, this works.

Very useful! I'm always forgetting my wifi passwords and sometimes need to access them to set up new devices. Thank you.

This'll come in handy when I forget my wifi password

@savagepro9060

9 ай бұрын

NOICE, even noicer you won't be breaking the law

@yaswanthravuri8450

9 ай бұрын

It will be handy for your neighbour when you change your password.

@savagepro9060

9 ай бұрын

@@yaswanthravuri8450 nah, the neighbor is not even a techie, he thinks a router is that thing used in a woodwork shop

@claussanta2341

9 ай бұрын

​@@yaswanthravuri8450it doesn't work like that.

@somerandomguywastaken

9 ай бұрын

​@@yaswanthravuri8450no, because that command only shows the passwords that u have entered that work. Once he changes it, and the guy doesn't know the new password, he's not gonna be able to get the new one....only see the old one

"I have the same combination on my luggage."

The password that shows with this command is only the saved wifi password.

@mohithsaiguruju226

9 ай бұрын

yeah! it was also showing me the same thing

@thiccboi6211

9 ай бұрын

yes like he said

@loschen_kite

9 ай бұрын

Correct...

@JDR134

9 ай бұрын

Obviously

@diegosauda9596

7 ай бұрын

How you can access this from remote?

If a bad actor has physical access to your PC them grabbing stored wifi passwords is the least of your worries lmao.

Amazing. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

@davidbombal

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Did this at a workplace that wouldn’t share their fast Wi-Fi 😂😂

“This is the lock picking lawyer and today we are going to try and pick a network lock…. We hear a click on one…”

@iamTheSnark

8 ай бұрын

Nothing on two...

@johnvine5731

8 ай бұрын

3 is binding.

@jonnyfatboy7563

8 ай бұрын

back to one now..

@Genetixxxxxxxxx

4 ай бұрын

Nice click out of three.....

You can do this with any OS… different commands for different OS terminals, but they all do it lol

I have to say thank you for everything you've done for contributing to humanity on a technical digital aspect dude thank you...😁👍

I'm so glad this channel came up in the shorts I watch. I subscribed immediately!! I'm not tech savvy at all but would love to learn certain things but don't have a clue where to start. Thanks for sharing and letting us know how things are done. 😊❤

Bro is hiding wifi passwords like people will fly from different countries to his house in order to access wifi XD

@MeBadDev_

5 ай бұрын

Nah he is just hiding wifi names since you might be able to figure out their location using those names

That seems like a lot of work to use my Wi-Fi. Side note if they are that deep in your system wi-fi passwords are probably not the target.

Oh, I have followed a lot of your guides on my study to CCIE...didn't realize you had a youtube channel. Subscribed!

Unfortunately doesn't work with WPA2-Enterprise I tried but don't show the parameter Key Content

@_m.a-x

9 ай бұрын

Enterprise is 802.1x, cert based. No preshared keys in play.

@ABehrooz

8 ай бұрын

Windows Certificate Storage should be able to give you those. btw, this whole thing is because of how WPA PSK was designed. no two ways around saving the password(or PKI) in plaintext.

So first you have to enter the wifi password to connect and then you can see the password after typing this command. 😂

@chitlitlah

9 ай бұрын

First you have to get on someone else's computer that already has the wifi saved in it, such as a work computer. Typically my work places have trusted me enough to give me the passwords, but those that don't...

Well you can even see passwords of wifis you're connected to, just by going to the control panel and the network settings. Really helpful if you forgot it and want to tell a friend or put a new device on.

This is super helpful. Not for hacking, but for when you forget your wifi password when your friend asks.

I can't believe you don't even need admin rights for this! When viewing the password in the GUI, you HAVE to have admin rights. Microsoft should patch this. This is insane!

@ShortFilmVD

9 ай бұрын

I'm pretty shocked also. Just checked on Ubuntu and password entry is required in the UI and root priveledges in the terminal. Gonna check on Mac next.

@cho_za12

9 ай бұрын

They wont patch this this could be done even in Windows 7

@asi2765

9 ай бұрын

You need admin rights. Atleast on 11

@AzizRaharjo

9 ай бұрын

@@asi2765 i am using win11, no admin needed

@orange11squares

9 ай бұрын

@@asi2765 on windows 7 you need to run cmd as admin as well, otherwise you can't see the password.

Just tried it, it only shows the SSID but not the password

@MoonLiteNite

3 ай бұрын

The tool is DESIGNED to show you the password. You are not typing it correct :) check the context, cases and your " " usage

This will actually be super handy. I often visit customers places and they don't know the password. Going to load this into a batch file tomorrow. Might even share the code as a reply here if I remember

@AI_Image_Master

8 ай бұрын

Just go to Network advanced settings and click on the properties of the network adapter for the wifi. CLick the show button on the password and you will see it. No need to remember the command.

@mage3690

8 ай бұрын

​@@AI_Image_MasterWindows' GUIs for system things are super underrated, if you know where to look for what you want. I'm a hardcore Linux fanboi, and I'd much rather use "Disk Management" than "fdisk". Heck, I'd rather use Windows' "fdisk" than Linux's "fdisk", the visual formatting by default is just SO much better. Simple tools and rich options are the foundation of goodness, but good defaults are the spice of awesomeness.

This is a great tip, and one of the few life hack type tips I've actually used and benefited from in my life

Why does this work like this? Is wpa2 this insecure all the time? How to patch, and/or does this only work with certain routers? Crazy!

@davidbombal

9 ай бұрын

This is pulling saved password information from a Windows computer. Doesn't matter if it is WPA2.

@NessNT

9 ай бұрын

@@davidbombal oh wow that's crazy! Thank you!

@MFmyk3

9 ай бұрын

So the hacker would have to already have access to the network and pc, making this redundant. getting passwds this way is more helpful in an IT situation I would think.

@nobodycares3900

9 ай бұрын

​@@NessNTits so that every time you connect to the network, you don't need to type in a password.

@miedsekadse7136

9 ай бұрын

​@@nobodycares3900But the password could be encrypted

Thnx it was helpful

@davidbombal

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

I subscribed to you because a) I find your content fascinating to listen to (not that I’m a tech wiz like you at all) b) Howzit boet!! Lekker to see a SA’ffer doing well in KZread!🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

FYI: Quotations are used when variables in the command has spaces.

Of course you need an administrator account.

@bouledepoil3720

9 ай бұрын

you can also bypass this btw

@minhtoanhoang1025

9 ай бұрын

You can't bypass adm account. I try and cant see anything like "Key Content"

@MoonLiteNite

3 ай бұрын

Policy controlled, not admin controlled. By default, i think this is not restricted, since restricted really offers no practical security gain

Hackers can try go to any public cafe n have remote access with script on usb damn

@Fermion.

9 ай бұрын

Sounds like you're talking about a MiTM attack. All this will do is show the passwords to the networks that the computer you're already on has connected to.

One of the few windows commands I have memorized. Like to pull this out as a party trick sometimes, shocked looks every time

I love this. Very nice, thanks!

This is actually useful if you're connecting a new device (say a new phone) to your WiFi but don't remember the password but it's connected to your pc

This is great for when I forgot my password but need to share it with someone

This was my first physical hack when I first started. Nostalgia at its finest (:

@chrisheger1795

9 ай бұрын

Not really a “hack”😅

@spykefu19

9 ай бұрын

@@chrisheger1795 ooo do elaborate! I’d love to hear your idea on what a “hack” is! And none of those “life-hacks”; please spare us the suffering of those. Keep it logical and educational at least. I believe in you! Ready? Go!

Used to use this on the laptops at school to get the wifi password. The IT guys weren't to bright. I also use to hide bash files to shut off your pc in the shared network folders disguised as games

@MoonLiteNite

3 ай бұрын

da faq i just read?

Super fun to know. This is why security at home is my number1

pulling the power cord on the router fucks that up quick

For one, it requires elevation. Secondly, Win API can also be used to do this (again elevation)

The only way a hacker can use this command is if they are somehow able to run this command on your local system against profiles that are already configured. You cannot "grab" your neighbor's password out of thin air with this or any other command I'm aware of.

You can also see them through the Windows UI. It is not a secret, there is an easy way to forget the WiFi informations. You can prevent your Windows to keep these if you work in sensible places. You can also schedule a cleaner that will erase them every day for example.

This is good to know if you forgot your wifi password and want to give it to the kid your babysitting for their Switch.

this is a "problem" on many linux machines, too, and probably mac also. somewhere, there's just an unencrypted config file with an entry for the wifi network, and one of the lines is just the plain text password. once someone has access to your unencrypted, physical computer, it's kinda game over anyway, though

You're already connected to it. That's why your computer knows it

It's never meant to be hidden. You can access it by normal mean in control panel.

I did it with my college computer lab this month. I now have access to 2 wifi networks :)

I have a text file on my laptop containing fun commands like this, one of them is a for loop that gets all the wifi passwords on a computer.

Mac is similar though keychain access. Although you will need the computers password or finger print to gain sccess

@korbenbutterworth3479

8 ай бұрын

On windows you can only run the command with admin privileges

So glad I found this guy. Honestly this is crazy did not know this... *mind blown*

Did this at my old job 😂😂 as a forklift operator no service in the building but every forklift had a computer so i found the password to the network the forklifts used

These are the networks already saved in your pc. That's why we can see password.

From where do you learn these kinds of things

Wooaa, that's a nice trick. Thank you so much David

Super cool! Thanks for adding to my daily dose of knowledge ✊🏼

Wish i could steal my neighbour's wifi 😂😂😂

Thanks! I always forget my own passwords and whenever we get a new device I have to look it up if I ever bother to write it down or reset everything. 😂 this will save me time in future.

Oh, yes so useful! Thanks. So many people have no idea what their wifi password is, and you have to search through their house to find the wifi box and flip it upside down.

Even as a complete noob, you can prompt Chat GPT to generate batch program for you to do pretty much anything (within the limits of the batch commands).

WOW.... I just went up a level... Thanks David!

We used this back in college to get the "fast internet" meant for professors.

@Grayest_Fox

9 ай бұрын

How did you remotely execute shell commands?

@MikeMessiah

9 ай бұрын

not remotely@@Grayest_Fox . A lot of times they ask us to do stuffs for them, on their PC. Like typing/correcting/editing docs etc. Even if they saw us running these commands they wouldnt know what is going on.

This guys shorts are always eye opening

Thanks. This will be way faster than Will Forte spelling "business."

I used these in high school on one of the library laptops. They had open wifi, which was garbage because everyone was on it, and a restricted official-use-only wifi, which ran much faster. Got the password from this trick, gave it to a few close friends. Never got caught.

You can also look at the adapter properties in control panel to do the same thing. If you connect to numerous networks either method can be helpful but the odds of someone using this in a malicious capacity is slim to none.

I *never let anyone* touch my computers at home and I *always lock* my computer at work, before leaving my desk for any reason. I just think it's a good practice.

I remember doing this to hack into net cafe password, man I feel like a wizard back then.

This only would have been relevant when i got grounded and my parents changed the wifi password.

Wow -- this is even worse than the text overflow bug that every copy of Windows suffered from (until a patch I think to Win 10 a few years ago) that could give you command control.

Very useful for when i forget my wifi password.

Used it in high school but realized doesn't always work.

its very true, ive done it... my buddies step dad was always on a power trip with the wifi password, so i made him a script that would embed itself into his moms computer and silently send me the password every hour lol

you can also click it thru since it about passwords to networks you already connected to but I guess it's faster if you remember the commands

Thanks good sir for making it much easier now!

Its also available in Control panel. Manage wifi networks. As long as you connected to them once.

Useful when you've been logged in for so long you forgot the password you made and want to add a new device. Actually just happened to me so thanks for the info :)

Omg! I got to see the passwords i entered myself, such hacker 😂

During high school our computer teacher taught us this and we borrowed laptop from other teacher to steal the school wifi password. They changed it quite often but we found patterns and just had to guessed them.

could you demonstrate as well, stuff like that using bad usb in flipper zero ,,,awesome content as always david

I used this when I'm adding guest into my wifi network... back in my playboy days.

Thank you ; this one is useful information : Many people are unaware this is a risk when they leave an unlocked and unsecured computer that other people can use that is on their network - either in their home or their workplace

If you use an asterisk for the name, it will list all of them. I have a .bat script that I use to do this when I forget the Wi-Fi password.

It's like if you invite a guest and they bring an unknown friend along who then covertly makes impressions of your keys. Still a threat.

Yes but also not every network is going to use keys in that way that you can just grab for example a lot of school networks nowadays if you try this you're not going to be able to see the key because they don't use like a clear key that will be listed for it

You need an elevated access to do that.

One small problem. I just tried this on my Windows machine and it does not show the password.

If you think this is terrifying, wait until you see a linux terminal.

I don't think it's a security hazard but i always thought it was funny when smartphone made it a complicated as possible to view the entered wifi passwords

A moment of silence for the people who are going to think they can get neighbor's WiFi password after watching this video.

If someone has physical access to your computer, you can already consider it as compromised :q