XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: invalid@nospam.com   
      
   On 05:29  30 Jan 2016, Sqwertz wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:36:44 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:   
   >   
   >> Alice J. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I just recently found out that our cellphones may be giving google,   
   >>> (by default anyway), in general, all the SSIDs around us, but, more   
   >>> sinisterly specifically, the SSID of our own home broadband routers.   
   >>   
   >> Sit down before you read this then ...   
   >>   
   >> By default android devices give the *passwords* for your SSIDs to   
   >> google, so that when you enter it into one device, it syncs to other   
   >> devices on the same account, so you don't need to enter the password   
   >> again, or when you replace your device it can restore the settings.   
   >   
   > And you can count them slurping the passwords from the data stream   
   > during your phone backups to Google servers, too (if enabled).   
   >   
   > -sw   
      
   Surely Google encrypts that data stream?  I hope!   
      
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