Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear

First time accepted submitter husemann writes "Micah Lee from the EFF filed a bug report about Google storing all your WLAN passwords on their application settings backup service without allowing you to encrypt them. So far it's not known whether the passwords are stored encrypted at rest, but just the fact that Google can read them (and disclose them if forced by 'law') is a bit surprising, too put it nicely. Already one German university is concerned enough about this 'feature' that they issued a warning to their users."

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Apple iOS

[EkriirkE]

While not storing cleartext, they do store your WiFi passwords in a reversible encryption. If using WPA I think they should just store the ssid:phrase hash instead of keeping the phrase. WEP can't be helped... Anyhow, Apple stores all passwords in their keychain and this is easily snooped. Jailbroken iOS devices can get "WiFiPass" to reveal all the AP & passwords its ever connected to. It's handy when I pass my device to an AP owner to "privately" enter their password but I want to associate more devices, I just load that program and see what it was and do it myself.