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Highly Visible Password
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When passwords are being entered, they're always displayed on screen in plain text, rather than asterisked out. Why? So you can see how clever either the characters or the writers are being; often it being some kind of reference or pun. They will also usually be all-caps and include no punctuation, whereas in real life you're encouraged to mix cases and use symbols to foil dictionary attacks. Part of the office-variety Viewer-Friendly Interface. In a futuristic setting, the password may even be spoken to the computer. In the future, nobody minds if the Bridge Bunnies know The Captain's security codes, since the computers are smart enough to make sure the code is spoken by the correct voice and apparently nobody uses a tape recorder in the future. Compare The Password Is Always "Swordfish", Password Slot Machine. Often lends itself to Override Command. Not to be confused with the popularity of a certain game show. |
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Sherlock: In "A Scandal in Belgravia", after Sherlock correctly infers that the blanks in the password to Irene's smartphone, which displays "I AM ***LOCKED," should be filled in with the letters S,H,E and R, they appear rather dramatically on the phone's screen. And again in "The Hounds of Baskerville", with the password to Major Barrymore's mainframe. |
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In the Watchmen comic, not only does the password show up on the screen, the computer helpfully informs the person breaking into the system that the password is incomplete. Hey, it was The '80s, it was a simpler, more naive time; you don't know things didn't work that way then. There's also a theory that Ozymandias wanted them out of New York City before he kills half of the city's population to prevent a nuclear war between the United States and Russia. | |
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In the finale of Cyber Six, Von Reichter's password to move his "Isle of Doom" is "THE LATE CYBERSIX" in hugely visible block-print letters. Of course Jose reads it rather easily and bites Von Reichter in the rear so hard with it it's not funny. | |
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Strange inversion in the Death Note movie: the username is asterisked out while the password is highly visible. Some Real Life systems actually work that way. | |
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In Just More Doors, each time you get to an interface asking you for a password, it will clearly display what you type. On top of being a highly visible purple and taking almost the whole height of the wall. | |
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Happens in Heroes when Mohinder's trying to guess his father's password. Ditto when Elle was trying to get into her father's computer |
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In the Bibi Blocksberg movie, Rafea uses a spell to make the password of Mr. Blocksberg's computer a highly visible one. | |
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In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory there is not so much a highly visible password as a highly audible one. A guard will be having an argument with someone over the phone within earshot of the player. When the player starts listening in, the topic has changed to the dangers of speaking a door code out loud. The frustrated guard will then shout out the door code repeatedly to prove that nobody is listening in. | |
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In the game Second Sight, the player can access computer terminals. If the terminal needs a password and the player doesn't know it then John Vattic (the Main Character) keeps entering generic passwords, which the player can see on the screen. | |
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At one point in Broken Helix, the player is given the password for a computer containing the files for Project Broken Helix. This trope occurs when the player enters the password, which clearly says "Contact". | |
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The X-Files, "Little Green Men": When Agent Scully needs to open a password-protected file on Mulder's computer, her guesses are visible to viewers. She tries SPOOKY (Mulder's nickname), SAMANTHA (name of his abducted little sister), and the third is the charm: TRUSTNO1, which are the dying words of Mulder's first Mysterious Informant Deep Throat. | |
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In the game Fallout 3, when a player attempts to hack a computer, not only does the computer conveniently provide a list of possible passwords, it also tells you how many letters are correct and in the right place. Ironically the password is asterisked when you type it (i.e. when you know it). |
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Sly 2: Band of Thieves: One mission requires you to trigger the alarms to lure a guard to deactivate them, at which point you can photograph the passcode, which is displayed in enormous digits just above the keypad. | |
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WarGames has a Highly Visible Password typed in a terminal program. In most real-life command line programs, a password simply won't show up at all rather than showing up either as plain text or as asterisks. This can be irritating if you don't realize you've made a typo because you can't see that there's one extra asterisk. | |
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All versions of Star Trek have the "say the password aloud" version of this trope. They are checking for voice matches too, but a few episodes have shown that the computer can be fooled by a recording of the officer in question saying the password - or even just a really good impersonator. Also, what happens if the officer in question catches a cold? |
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In The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel the speaking passwords out loud variation is used, with the passwords to the various security systems of Machiavelli's all being the Italian titles of his works. Fortunately, they do have voice recognition, so it's not as if his enemies could just hire a Renaissance scholar to crack them. And nobody knows (or would believe) he's the original Machiavelli anyway. | |
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The password entered by Kevin Flynn to enter the Master Control's computer system in TRON would have been a better one if it wasn't so visible: REINDEER FLOTILLA, 17 characters in all (remember, spaces count!!) Given a Mythology Gag in TRON 2.0, as the password REINDEER TORTILLA activates a battalion of read only and indestructible tanks, forcing Jet to run a gauntlet. Still better than his rival Dillinger's: MASTER. Dillinger's stupidly simple password almost works as Foreshadowing to indicate he's actually crap at programming and didn't earn his position honestly. The silly passwords are almost Justified by the era. Computer networking and security wasn't as much of a thought in the early 80's. |
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TV Tropes wiki password changer, though an overhaul to the wiki software has since fixed that. | |
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Taken to its extreme in The Incredibles. Not only does Syndrome's computer display the password, but his monitor is the size of an IMAX screen and the letters are several feet tall. Of course, just to get to the computer you have to get past a literal firewall (a waterfall of lava) and an array of anti-superhero turrets fire at you if you get the password wrong, so Syndrome probably isn't too worried about unauthorized users seeing his password. | |
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Every time you encounter a keypad locked door in one of the Crusader games, there will be a computer nearby with an email on the screen reading something to the effect of "In accordance to our security regulations, the access code to the lab has changed. The new code is 349". | |
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Many networked arcade games by Konami will require you to enter a PIN (along with your card) to log into your account. If the game is touchscreen-based, or has buttons overlaid on the screen like jubeat, a virtual keypad will be displayed on the screen, and the arrangement of digits on the keypad will shuffle on every PIN entry attempt in order to defy this trope by preventing other people from easily guessing your PIN based on where you're tapping (the aforementioned jubeat in particular has a 4x4 grid of buttons that are quite big compared to the keys on a conventional keypad). | |
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In Unknown (2011), when Liz types in the passwords, they are visible in plain text. And they are using spaces. | |
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In Mega Man Battle Network, MegaMan.EXE is always able to see the passwords and security certificates Lan needs him to handle; this is justified because as a NetNavi one of his roles is to help manage passwords, and he is typically in the right data spaces to see and manage said passwords, which are sometimes amusingly visible from his point of view as massive letters printed on huge floor tiles. | |
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Code Lyoko gives us the referential type: when Jérémie is first prompted for an access code for Sector 5 (codenamed "Carthage"), we're treated to a series of dropped names from the Punic Wars before he finally gains access with "SCIPIO" (Scipio Romanus, the guy who eventually conquered Carthage). | |
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Played straight in White Frog when Nick is trying to get into his dead brother's email account at home. Later averted when Nick is trying different passwords on a public bench and all the letters are asterisked out. | |
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