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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by nerdbert on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:05PM (#40919664)
How would they have been able to see the content of a request from the router to AWS if it was HTTPS?
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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by KomoD on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @07:26PM (#40922340)
You can MITM HTTPS, the device just needs to trust the cert (which isn't hard to do)
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