HTC Android phones allow apps to harvest users' Wi-Fi password - Help Net Security

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[**HTC **Android** phones allow apps to harvest users' Wi-Fi password**][3]
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A bug in the way some **Android**-running HTC smartphones handle requests for password allows some applications to send the user's Wi-Fi network username, password and SSID information to a remote server, researcher Bret Jordan warned on Wednesday.
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