Password recovering/rudimentary hax0ring
Okay well it’s not really hacking, just revealing passwords hidden behind those annoying (albeit useful) asterisks. NirSoft has saved my butt many times after forgetting a password, or needing to discover a password on a computer where it was already hidden by asterisks.
Like just then, I had to find out the password for an ADSL connection to access the net. Log-in to a connected computer, use the Dialup Password Recovery program, and voila.