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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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