Google Knows Every Wi-Fi Password in the World

Schneier on Security 2013-09-20

Summary:

This article points out that as people are logging into Wi-Fi networks from their Android phones, and backing up those passwords along with everything else into Google's cloud, that Google is amassing an enormous database of the world's Wi-Fi passwords. And while it's not every Wi-Fi password in the world, it's almost certainly a large percentage of them. Leaving aside...

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Authors:

schneier

Date tagged:

09/20/2013, 09:44

Date published:

09/20/2013, 08:05