Without local security you have no security, case in point, GooglePasswordDecryptor

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“Google Password Decryptor is a powerful tool that can decrypt the passwords of popular Google desktop applications in Windows. Google uses a special algorithm to encrypt and store the saved passwords so that users don’t need to enter the password over and over again.

Google Password Decryptor hacks and decrpyts the saved passwords of various Google desktop applications and reveals them in a simple list view. The supported apps are Google Talk, Picasa, Desktop Search, GMail Notifier, and Chrome. It can also display stored passwords of Google in Internet Explorer.

This could be useful for those who might have forgotten their passwords, but otherwise if someone else gets hold of your computer consider your passwords stolen! And I thought Google encryption algorithm was un-hackable, not anymore.

Just load up the utility and hit Start Recovery button. The Google Account Name along with the passwords will be shown instantly in the main window.

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SecurityXploded – GooglePasswordDecryptor

“About GooglePasswordDecryptor

GooglePasswordDecryptor is the free tool to recover stored Google account passwords by various applications. Most of the Google's desktop applications such as GTalk, Picassa etc store the account passwords in their private encrypted store to prevent hassale of entering the password everytime.

GooglePasswordDecryptor goes through each of these application's encrypted stores and decrypts this Google account password.

Google uses the single centralized account for managing all of its services such as Gmail, Picassa, GTalk, iGoogle, Desktop Search etc. Since all of these core services are controlled by one account, losing the password will easily make one's life miserable. Also trying the Google password recovery service will turn out to be useless unless you have setup the secondary account for receiving the password and you remember all the personal details that you have entered at the time of account creation.

In such cases, GooglePasswordDecryptor comes to rescue and helps in recovering the stored Google password by various applications. Also it can show passwords from multiple accounts if you have used more than one Google account.

Features of GooglePasswordDecryptor

GooglePasswordDecryptor supports recovering of the stored encrypted password from most of the prominent Google desktop applications as well as internet browsers. Here is the complete list of supported applications.

• Google Talk
• Google Picassa
• Google Desktop Search
• Gmail Notifier
• Internet Explorer (all versions from 4 to 8)
• Google Chrome

It also provides 'Export Feature' to save the recovered Google passwords to HTML or TEXT format for future use.

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If you save your passwords, just understand the risk you are taking…

While you’re there, check out the very cool article, Exposing the Google Password Secrets, which documents the “how” behind the utility.