Re:Verizon Knows Your WiFi SSID and Key
by xenophonf on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @01:50PM
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> They have no interest in using your wifi key to intrude on your network.
Verizon might not, but what are the motives of the hackers who might stumble upon a cache of SSIDs and keys? Remember the furor about Google Street View capturing SSIDs (/sans/ keys)? Presumably all they were doing with the data was improving their geolocation capabilities. To me what Verizon's doing here is much more intrusive and would require me to trust them to a much greater degree.
Verizon might not, but what are the motives of the hackers who might stumble upon a cache of SSIDs and keys? Remember the furor about Google Street View capturing SSIDs (/sans/ keys)? Presumably all they were doing with the data was improving their geolocation capabilities. To me what Verizon's doing here is much more intrusive and would require me to trust them to a much greater degree.