[citation][nom]Clintonio[/nom]Idiots who believe Kevin Parrish's scare mongering probably think it was both purpose and intended.1) If Wifi is unencrypted it means people can view ANYTHING you send on your Wifi unless it is encrypted. 2) The most common online protocol is HTTP. HTTP isn't encrypted. 3) Thus, if you send your password over HTTP, anyone can view it. 4) Google was accidentally (or not) collecting data from unencrypted wifi.5) If users were using insecure websites that pass your passwords over HTTP, then Google, any ANYONE ELSE would see it.6) The fault of the passwords in plaintext is the fault of the website.7) The fault of the open wifi is the owner of the network7.1) Or the user's for using a public hotspot and not expecting it8) It is Google's fault for sniffing.Google did not take these passwords maliciously, it claims to not even mean to be sniffing data packets anyway.tldr; Wifi unencrypted on insecure site = bad. Not Google's fault.[/citation]
Agreed, if you randomly take gigabytes of unencrypted wireless traffic, chances are you're going to get at least a few passwords in there.