Bug 891 – wireless network keys probably should not be shown in view current settings

Bug 891 - wireless network keys probably should not be shown in view current settings

Summary:

wireless network keys probably should not be shown in view current settings

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	SB 2/3
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Wireless
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Blackketter Dean

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Reported:	2005-03-01 12:40 UTC by Kevin Pearsall
Modified:	2005-03-02 15:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Kevin Pearsall 2005-03-01 12:40:35 UTC

view current settings shows you the wpa key cleartext.  i think that's probably
a bad idea.  probably shouldn't show it at all...

Comment 1 Blackketter Dean 2005-03-02 13:51:08 UTC

Fixed in the latest SB2 branch.  Note: I didn't remove this from the settings area, I'm a little afraid of 
folks having problems editing/reentering their keys.  Thoughts?

Comment 2 Kevin Pearsall 2005-03-02 15:09:56 UTC

that's a good point...  i never thought of that.

whenever you enter a key in windows or osx or even pda's it always hides them
after the first time you enter them...

not sure what the precedent would be for devices like this...but someone could
theoretically use a universal remote and point it in your window to hack your
network.  the same would have held true for sb1, though.

but it only supported WEP which is known-insecure anyhow, would probably be
easier to just crack the network than to bother looking in a window, etc.