Google knows every single Android user's WiFi password

[/quote]Google database can be compromised. Once Wi-Fi access is compromised, the hackers can sniff your network packets for data in your Wi-Fi transmission.[/quote]
They can sniff my crack!!!
 
All I see here are nutjobs worried about security. Problem is they are the minority. See the American consumer is SO LAZY that they cant even put pen to paper and write down thier passwords so they will remember them. No its much easier to say ok and just let the phone remember for them. Its smart right?? All joking aside, big deal.
Not like Google cares and if the govt REALLy wanted into your computer, you really couldnt stop them UNLESS youre NOT on the web. And then they just do a little home invasion and steal what they want. Or get a warrent. Guys yes there are connections between our devices and the govt, but before the rants start, who do you think oversees the operations? Who is the cell phones REGULATORY agency?? Why Uncle Sam since you asked. So the govt has had thier hands on our information since the information age started. We are still here. Crazy people STILL do crazy sh!t. Stupid people still do stupid sh!t. The point is we know they are watching the body republic, but are they SEEING anything. Probably not. Your person fetish websites dont concern them. They would rather you at home spanking, then out and about causing trouble. And unless you put "key" words out there, then they wont have reason to watch you. In the end, face to face is the only real comunication we can be sure isnt heavily monitored. And I might point out to all who are screaming about the govt watching us....AND???
 
You miss the point. The point is that they store it in a readable form instead of something like a hash or a complex way of storing a password. This makes it vulnerable and a risk. It's ok to do it as long as it's done in a proper way :)
 
All I see here are nutjobs worried about security. Problem is they are the minority. See the American consumer is SO LAZY...
Personally, I would not call them lazy, though they may actually be so. As I see it, the real problem is that the average American consumer does not have enough technical knowledge to really understand what they are doing. In other words, the average American consumer is ignorant. ;)
 
Getting it through Google allows them to do it quietly. If they "strong-arm" it from the owner, the owner has time to hide stuff. As for what they'd want with wi-fi passwords, I've been hacked through my network before, and watched as said hacker took remote control of my mouse and keyboard.
 
The user chose to put their wi-fi password on a Google server? Even if it's in an end user license agreement somewhere, considering no one reads those, I seriously doubt anyone would be okay with putting the password for their HOME NETWORK on anyone's server but their own, especially after we now live with confirmation that government openly spies on us. And if it is to be done, people would want to know what precautions are taken to ensure the information will not be used in an abusive way.

If by signing an employment contract with a lot of fine print and consecutively punching in at work each day I discovered later that my boss had been provided with a key to my house all along, I'd see something wrong with that.
 
My only question is, why isn't the backup data encrypted with a public key generated by the user so that only the private secret key can decrypt it? I mean look at what Mega did.
 
What a bunch a tin foil hat wearing garbage. If you didn't read the Android backup agreement and had to wait for someone else to point out the fact it includes wifi passwords, you need to have your head examined. The reality is quite simple; rather than recording this for their own serendipitous spy use, it's recorded to make our live's easier and chances are 90% of users simply keep the default User = Admin and Password = password or admin, etc for admin access to change your setup. If it's a passphrase you'll know the MAC and name of every single device that logs in!

So I call fowl! ...like in stinking up the place with garbage editorials like this. Basically again... accusing Google of telling on themselves openly in a click through agreement that if YOU..... aren't reading and understanding anything past the first word, makes YOU the blithering *****!

I say until.... they actually get called out by the government you fools trying to make out like Google is "teh Skynet", need to honestly find something better to do with your time, than nitpick frivolous accusations like some 5yr old telling on their older brother, something their mom already knew!!! lol....

Come on people the NSA wrote the Secure Linux Kernel for Jelly Bean Android. You think the DoD and our government aren't aware of this themselves already???

Shame on you for pointing out something so trivial and universally ignored as a home WiFi Password whether admin or device access. You'd think people really cared what their access or login password is. They are like a key lock on a door. They aren't meant to really keep a criminal out of your house. They are simply a means to prove unauthorized "Breaking and Entering". When in reality anyone accessing your WiFi Admin is logged... if you simply change the default password and set it up properly.

As for your encrypted access passphrase, whether they know the passcode or not, you'd still need to know the router brand and admin address to do any damage on the network and that's if you aren't managing your home wireless network properly like this little gem tells you here:
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/free-parental-control-net-monitoring-netgear/

Quite simply stated, if your neighbor or Google even.... is close enough and foolish enough to be stealing internet access from your router, the reality is that they aren't stealing it from you. They are stealing it from your provider without your permission. If... you can wrap your head around that little tidbit of knowledge, you'll understand just why every internet provider is more interested in you using an encrypted password for their own benefit. Otherwise we'd all have password free access all over the World, instead of just the countries where Free WiFi access is almost guaranteed on every street corner. If no password needed, what does your little tirade against Google really prove anyway?

Also by simply using the electronic pairing via the WPS button on both router & devices or simply switching off manual configuration and enabling WPS (Wireless Protected Mode) setup, you totally eliminate any other device than those you have physically pushed the WPS button for on your ROUTER! .....now tell me what's so hard about that? When the fact is that your passphrase is even hidden from your view. Let alone a device's MAC and Name needed w/ that password to get access in the first place. Which is also recorded and can be analyzed by authorities to determine who they are!

What a Joke this whole scenario is and that from someone who works in IT! ^_* ....so if you are really that worried about this, then just use your router's WPS setup mode and get your own self locked out of actually knowing what your router's Passphrase is! .....and for God's sake, change your ***** Proof default Admin Login while you're at it!!!
 
Google database can be compromised. Once Wi-Fi access is compromised, the hackers can sniff your network packets for data in your Wi-Fi transmission.[/quote]
They can sniff my crack!!![/quote]


hahaha.... that's what I say! ;-P ....because in all reality if Google is that close to every crack on earth to sniff it, they really must be "teh SkYnEt" afterall!

OMG the sKyNeT is falling and we all better run before Google starts reading our minds located in our cracks. That's if you really believe this crack full of bullpucky!

BTW... at your quote; Google already is well on their way to fully encrypting their entire database from evil eyes whether private, corporate or government. So they'd have to want access pretty bad to every single Google user's data. Which on average for let's say just a billion Android users would take well over a 100 or so years to CRACK! ^_*
 
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