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Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?


From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:06:00 -0700

On 4/23/19 16:46, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
Apparently there's a concern with customers that their seemingly
private passphrases, entered in their own boxes, are being shared with
the upstream ISP without an explicit customer consent, and are kept in
the ISP database for an unspecified period of time. Is it there by
design?

if so, then maybe some tweaks are necessary?


Don't use the built in wifi AP on a cable modem combo would be my first reaction.

~Seth


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