iPhone's Wi-Fi hotspot passwords are vulnerable to attack, researchers say - GigaOM

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Researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany have figured out that the security provided in the iPhone's Wi-Fi hotspot isn't actually all that secure. In fact, they've shown that the randomly generated password that Apple provides ...
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