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I had fun freaking out my not-so-tech-savvy-but-exceedingly-paranoid (tin foil paranoid) uncle: He bet me $50 I couldn't crack his WiFi password. He let me use his iMac that was already connected.

I hopped onto the Admin page for the router. Had a password, which make sense. I submitted a test password, and there was no page-refresh or network activity... hm. Must be just in the Javascript...

Sure enough, it was obfuscated, but the password was in the damned HTML and easy enough to find. I got $50, and the priceless look of horror on my uncle's face.

I then explained to him that physical access to a computer usually equals "Game Over" ;)



But you didn't have physical access to the router. Setting aside that you could probably dump it out of memory if you had root on the OSX box, the router shouldn't have coughed it up so easily if it was supposed to be secure.


Oh, that was supposed to be my point if I didn't make it clearly enough: a router should NEVER have been programmed to do that.




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