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!!!