Ask HN: how did my Nexus 7 know my wifi password?

Posted by jmcashdollar on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I got my Nexus 7 delivered to me at work today. I got to play around with it a little bit during the day, but didn't really do much except login to my work's WiFi and my Google account.

When I came home, I knew I had to look for the password to my WiFi (random string of numbers so never remember it). To my surprise, when I woke up my Nexus 7 it was already connected.

My WiFi still needs a password and nothing has changed to it since I hooked it up a year ago. How did this already know my password?

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Re:Ask HN: how did my Nexus 7 know my wifi password? by nodata on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:27AM (#4264725)

Did you log in to a Google account on another device which has access to your wireless network? Did that other device have the tickbox that enabled your settings and wifi passwords to be backed up?

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Re:Ask HN: how did my Nexus 7 know my wifi password? by hoodoof on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:28AM (#4264728)

"How can it not know what it is?"

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Re:Ask HN: how did my Nexus 7 know my wifi password? by raghav305 on Thursday July 19, 2012 @02:38AM (#4264756)

your mom probably connected it when you were asleep..

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