Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud

Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by spdy on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @08:47AM (#6057312)

With the street view wifi scandal, this on going encryption problem and the revelations about prism this looks very bad.

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Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by sil3ntmac on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:24AM (#6057778)

Reference: http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/22/google-street-view-fine-g...

(for others like myself who had not heard of this)

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Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by Plutor on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @03:21PM (#6059641)

Just to add to everyone's knowledge: this Street View wifi snooping was a) three years ago, b) accidental, and c) only known by the public because Google voluntarily revealed that it had been doing it (and immediately deleted all of the collected data).

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