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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by rkagerer on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:13PM (#40920589)
Android needs a "Backup My Data to My Own Cloud/Device" option. Unfortunately that's gotten much harder to do over the years (as they've neutered the relevant API's).
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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by xp84 on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:39PM (#40920838)
Yeah. tbh we are lucky on the Apple side that itunes existed and had a backup facility (Presumably because WAN speeds were so slow for many people in 2007). You can bet if the iOS platform were created today, local backup would have never been a thing there either. "Just trust the cloud!"
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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by e44858 on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @05:02PM (#40921071)
https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault

It's included in GrapheneOS, so you can backup things like WiFi passwords to a local NextCloud server.

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Re:Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext t... by rkagerer on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:48AM (#40924321)
Seedvault has limitations, and last I heard GrapheneOS is trying to divorce itself of it.
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