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the furor (at least, that I saw) was that the devices stored this information and would potentially let others look at it later.

it shouldn't be upsetting that your computer knows what keys you're pressing or what network you are affiliating with. recording that information permanently could be bad.

if you have an ubuntu laptop with wireless handy, run the following command:

sudo grep AssocResp /var/log/syslog



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