Attackers have the ability to use programs that are able to reveal local passwords by placing some
kind of a pointer/cursor over the asterisks in a program’s password field. The reason that such
tools can uncover passwords in some Operating Systems is because:

A.
the passwords are simply masked with asterisks

B.
the etc/passwd file is on a FAT32 partition

C.
the passwords are decrypted on screen

D.
the password text is stored in ASCII format

E.
the etc/passwd file is on a FAT16 partition