All Linux Distributions Store Wi-Fi Passwords in Plain Text

hilarious

The passwords are only accessible by root, the "exploit" here consists in obtaining physical access to the machine and booting from a boot disk to get the information from the hard disk.

In this case it's not just your wifi passwords that are lost. Its everything.

Let's say the passwords are encrypted with the users password so they can only be recovered by someone who can login to the machine. Well then the attacker can just replace the software on the system to log the passwords and send them to him next time the machine goes online.

The only bug here is not wasting time with security theatre.

Using Kubuntu and wifi passwords appear to be stored in the kdewallet, not /etc/NetworkManager.