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by shuckles 759 days ago
Your laptop storing a Wifi credential locally is terrifying?
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I think it’s plain text? Unless recovery environment has a symmetrical encryption scheme and it can decrypt the cypher text stored in nvram?
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

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