[LeoPanthera]

That is not related. Mac computers store the last successful wifi credentials in in the EFI, and use them to give macOS Recovery internet access.

[38]

That is fucking terrifying.

[shuckles]

Your laptop storing a Wifi credential locally is terrifying?

[baby_souffle]

I think it’s plain text? Unless recovery environment has a symmetrical encryption scheme and it can decrypt the cypher text stored in nvram?

[adamomada]

I just checked nvram -p

It has the SSID in plaintext in current-network and preferred-network, not the passphrase. I’m not sure how it’s obfuscated or encrypted but it is not plaintext

[38]

its storing it on the god damn motherboard, not a flashdrive or something