My Nexus 7 has magical powers?

penrhyn

Went to visit with a friend yesterday to show of my Nexus 7. It connected to their wireless network without any intervention on my part.
Their network has WPA security.
So how did it do it, had it obtained the log in info from my Android phone?
The answer appears to be yes.
Clever or spooky.



PS Having checked the Nexus has details of all the wireless networks that are on the phone.

kwikbreaks

I guess that our google accounts hold a frightening amount of information on us :eek:

After tiring of the memory usage and occasional sluggishness in Firefox I recently switched over to using Chrome and with some trepidation let it store password info in there so I can sync all my browsers. I'd previously done that manually using a password exporter plugin with FireFox. Google now officially own my online life.

penrhyn

I wouldn't mind so much if Mr Google had got the BBC iplayer and Sky Go apps ready at launch.

Stageshoot

My Nexus has the magical ability to replace my cars dashboard,

I Love this bit of kit

http://youtu.be/L3SeQ769Pxg?hd=1

Darksun

penrhyn wrote: »

I wouldn't mind so much if Mr Google had got the BBC iplayer and Sky Go apps ready at launch.

Are either of those apps developed by Google?

penrhyn

Yer but no but yer, I know its not a Google app but, Shirley they could have made the BBC and Sky an offer they could not refuse and get them out for the launch!!

Richie-from-the-Boro

Stageshoot wrote: »

My Nexus has the magical ability to replace my cars dashboard,

I Love this bit of kit

http://youtu.be/L3SeQ769Pxg?hd=1

- now that, for personal needs reasons, I do like
- can I assume that's your work Stageshoot ?
- and any idea if it works on ODBIII ?

Stageshoot

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

- now that, for personal needs reasons, I do like
- can I assume that's your work Stageshoot ?
- and any idea if it works on ODBIII ?

Cars Not work just a hobby (Press Photography is work), the app is £2.49 Torque Pro from the Andriod Play Store, (Theres a Free version as well), the OBDII plug was £11ish from Amazon,

Not sure about OBDIII I am not Technical so to be honest had never heard of that, on my Fiat 500 the OBDII connects with most of the sensors, reads fuel level, speed, revs, temps, boost, and about 200 other things as well, and clears Diagnostic codes.

Not sure where OBDIII comes in tho only seem OBDII adaptors.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Stageshoot wrote: »

Cars Not work just a hobby (Press Photography is work), the app is £2.49 Torque Pro from the Andriod Play Store, (Theres a Free version as well), the OBDII plug was £11ish from Amazon,

Not sure about OBDIII I am not Technical so to be honest had never heard of that, on my Fiat 500 the OBDII connects with most of the sensors, reads fuel level, speed, revs, temps, boost, and about 200 other things as well, and clears Diagnostic codes.

Not sure where OBDIII comes in tho only seem OBDII adaptors.

Cheers for that M8 !, the ODB3 is just a single manufacturer of motors in this case Daimler Chrysler Grand Voyager. The maker blocks ODB2 because [I assume] they have relatively no diesels over there and they sell their own £1900 quid version of a ODB3 knowing they've blocked the ODB2 in their EEPROM. I've tried all three versions of snap-on [with keys] up to the £11000 version and none will give a deep reading just basic codes.

Good to know an app > may < do the job, although that is a basic tuning info only rather than diagnostics, but it is nevertheless interesting. I notice the same site list the ELM at its basic level - pity because they do a deep version which is not listed. Thanks for that Stageshoot !

buglawton

The Nexus must have used Google's database tat was collected from everyone's WiFi routers and decrypting them when they drove round doing Street View.

Or the Google programmers slipped in a little WPA cracking app....

[Deleted User]

buglawton wrote: »

The Nexus must have used Google's database tat was collected from everyone's WiFi routers and decrypting them when they drove round doing Street View.

Or the Google programmers slipped in a little WPA cracking app....

Or the option to backup settings to the registered Google account on the phone was enabled..