Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
by shawnz on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @09:16AM
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Here's the problem with encrypting via the account password, directly or indirectly:
Google gets subpoena'd for your data. At next logon they capture your password and grab the key. There goes your data, including your wifi password or whatever else.
Of course I don't think that this would ever happen, and even OP's complaint is a bit unnecessarily paranoid in my opinion. But there's your answer.
EDIT: However this might be plausible if the stored key was also encrypted with some sort of passphrase or PIN that was not known to Google, which I believe is how Chrome does it currently.
Google gets subpoena'd for your data. At next logon they capture your password and grab the key. There goes your data, including your wifi password or whatever else.
Of course I don't think that this would ever happen, and even OP's complaint is a bit unnecessarily paranoid in my opinion. But there's your answer.
EDIT: However this might be plausible if the stored key was also encrypted with some sort of passphrase or PIN that was not known to Google, which I believe is how Chrome does it currently.