For those that do Azure presentations / screen recordings you know that you often find yourself scrubbing out your sensitive and personal information such as subscription keys, email addresses, keys and connection strings. What if you could have this magically done for you?
Well let me introduce to you a handy Chrome extension called Azure Mask that will mask GUIDs (such as Subscription IDs), email addresses, keys, and connection strings with a blur. The intention of the extension is to make it easier to do screen recordings without revealing sensitive, personal, account information that may show up on screen.
NOTE: This extension will only run and apply against Azure portal URLs.
Features
- Blurs GUIDs (such as Subscription IDs)
- Blurs your account email
- Hides the "Report a Bug" button (if found)
- Toggle the mask on/off and store this state
- Apply the mask (if enabled) after Document Object Model (DOM) mutations
Installing the Extension
As mentioned on the Azure Mask GitHub repository readme, you can install this extension in Chrome from either a package or from source. Let’s take a look at how we can install from source.
- Download or clone the repository: git clone git@github.com:clarkio/azure-mask.git
- Open up Chrome and bring up the extensions settings by typing in the address bar: chrome://extensions/
- Check the “Develop mode” option and click on Load unpacked extension button:
- Navigate to where you cloned this repository and then choose path: /azure-mask/src
- Follow the prompts and then the extension will be available in Chrome:
Using Azure Mask
After installing the Azure Mask extension in Chrome, navigate to your Azure portal and after signing in you will see all your Azure secrets magically blurred:
If you want to turn off this extension, click on the Azure Mask extension button in Chrome to bring up the options:
Enjoy!
The Flying Maverick 