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Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers(stackdiary.com)

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During installation, the router sent several data packets to an Amazon server in the US. These packets contained the configured SSID name and password in clear text, as well as some identification tokens for this network within a broader database and an access token for a user session that could potentially enable a MITM attack.

Linksys has refused to acknowledge/respond to the issue.

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dev_null@lemmy.ml
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Even then, the other nodes would only need the hash of the password, not the password itself.

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Natanael@slrpnk.net
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That depends entirely on the auth system, but you can use a separate credential to retrieve the password (using something like a PAKE algorithm)

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