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Re:Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world by demallien on Friday September 13, 2013 @06:35AM (#6379584)
It's convenient for the owner of the Android phone, but the wifi password is not necessarily theirs to give away. That's the problem. It's not because your friends and family have given you their wifi password that they intended to give that password to Google as well. You're trading their security for your convenience.
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Re:Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world by lotsofcows on Friday September 13, 2013 @09:48AM (#6380393)
It's certainly a problem. I don't think Google will, or indeed should, do anything about it though.

I'd like to see routers using the passphrase to generate a long lived authentication token. "Good netizens", as the phrase goes, could ensure their routers / client devices didn't store passphrases without inconveniencing the end user.

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Re:Google knows nearly every Wi-Fi password in the world by diydsp on Friday September 13, 2013 @11:34AM (#6381120)
great observation; it leads to a possible new feature for home wifi routers such as "guest" passwords or temporary passwords that expire (yes, I see that's redundant).
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