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Find 'clear' PPP modem passwords in System Profiler
Authored by: ccgaudette on Jan 25, '06 11:39:43AM
Yes. I can basically confirm this one. I don't have my computer's modem in the active Network information, but the password can be seen in the Locations sub-group. Find a location that does have the modem configured for PPP. It is a string called "Authorization Password". It contains values that decode directly to the dial-up account password.

Security-wise, this is a consern because I beleive that you can poll System Profiler data using AppleScript. On the otherhand Mac OS X would not be the first OS to store dial-up passwords so clearly. I am remembering modem log files that needed no decoding to see the password.

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