Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud

Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by yardie on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @10:47AM (#6057935)

It's also a diagnosis nightmare. The ISPs in my country used to use WEP with MAC filtering with their wifi-routers. The password was mildly complex (16 characters) and on a label on the box. Most users never changed the password. So Joe Blow connects his laptop using the password on the sticker, and it doesn't work. Imagine the same problem for a few million users.

It's false security because (especially for wifi) MAC filtering is like a verbal password that's been written down on a billboard. Everyone can read it so its not a secret.

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Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by nwh on Thursday July 18, 2013 @01:17AM (#6061896)

Heh, even the longest possibly WEP key can be broken in a few minutes with consumer hardware. At least ISPs in Australia use WPA as standard.

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Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by yardie on Thursday July 18, 2013 @05:26AM (#6062603)

They use WPA2 now and from a few years ago. The cheap wifi-routers they sent out years ago didn't have the muscle to do WPA encryption.

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Re:Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud by nwh on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:09AM (#6062694)

Our have for a while too. Sure the password is the hash of the the routers MAC and the manufacture date, but they did try.

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