Comment on Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Two important points raised:

The answer to the first one may be semi-legit as these are mesh products. As in, the other nodes in the mesh will need this information, and it appears that Linksys has decided to store your security data in AWS for the other mesh nodes to retrieve it when you’re setting it up. I’d sure as hell like to know this before the product does this. Further, I’d much prefer to simply attached to each mesh node myself to input the secured credentials instead of sending them outside to the internet.

There’s not excuse for Linksys sending the creds unencrypted onto the internet.

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