September 16, 2013

Google Knows Your Wi-Fi Password

Filed under: News — admin @ 11:03 am

Okay: Panic.

If you use an Android device, then odds are really good that any Wi-Fi password you’ve ever entered has been saved to Google’s servers. There is nothing to prevent Google from accessing that information.

The Back Up My Settings command (or Backup my Data), found in the Settings app, copies not only options, settings, apps, and accounts, but also passwords. In fact, if you use Chrome, any account passwords saved by the browser are probably also backed up and available on Google’s servers.

Is this a security breech? Probably. No one will know unless some of the Bad Guys hack into Google’s servers to steal all that information.

I’m not particularly worried at this point. Making Google aware of how uncomfortable you are with this arrangement would probably help lead to some sort or acceptable solution.

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