HTC acknowledges that some Android devices may have leaked WiFi passwords - ZDNet (blog)

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[**HTC acknowledges that some **Android** devices may have leaked WiFi passwords**][2]
**ZDNet (blog)**
By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | February 2, 2012, 5:16am PST The issue was initially bought to light by security researchers Chris Hessing and Bret Jordan, who discovered that any **Android** applications on an affected handset with access to the **...**
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