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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.
by LeoPanthera 2y ago
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 2y agoThat is fucking terrifying.
- shuckles 2y agoYour laptop storing a Wifi credential locally is terrifying?
- baby_souffle 2y agoI think it’s plain text? Unless recovery environment has a symmetrical encryption scheme and it can decrypt the cypher text stored in nvram?
- adamomada 2y agoI 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 2y agoits storing it on the god damn motherboard, not a flashdrive or something