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Number one (and second is clear daylight), the Feds (or whatever they're called in your country of choice) will be *very* interested in obtaining (legally sanctioned, of course!) access to whichever WiFi hotspot they're currently interested in.  They now know the information is stored by Google and are easily able to get it by court order.

"Oh dear, sorry, the WiFi you're interested in is one of the 0.53% to which we don't have current access credentials; sorry."

Ah huh.

And if the Feds have access, so does every criminal, marital and civil litigant in every court of the land.

Not only that, but we have already seen how porous the Google security is with the various 'Chinese' intrusions; and thus who knows how easy it is for anyone else to make their presence felt.

Sometimes we find that some simple shortcut we take to make life easy ends up not just biting us on the arse, but taking said bodily part clean off.

Oh, and Mr Google, why is it I can't turn this feature off?

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David Heath has over 25 years experience in the IT industry, specializing particularly in customer support, security and computer networking. Heath has worked previously as head of IT for The Television Shopping Network, as the network and desktop manager for Armstrong Jones (a major funds management organization) and has consulted into various Australian federal government agencies (including the Department of Immigration and the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence). He has also served on various state, national and international committees for Novell Users International; he was also the organising chairman for the 1994 Novell Users' Conference in Brisbane. Heath is currently employed as an Instructional Designer, building technical training courses for industrial process control systems.

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