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Originally Posted by knc1
If it was covered by financial security laws, it probably would be.
But it isn't.
So don't share the password with any entity (person or corporate).
If it can't be avoided in the software - complain to Amazon.
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Or don't bother using a password, in which case, no worries, eh?
Most wifi routers are compromised anyway, and google harvested massive amounts of raw wifi packets when they did their street view photos. Those can be wifi passwords (and encrypted data) can be decrypted and viewed in the future, if any local event draws sufficient attention, resourceful organizations can study your old wifi traffic. Amazon harvesting your wifi passwords is just a drop in ocean.
Yes, they not only record RF emissions now (including wifi), I was told by an old-coworker (hopefully not confidentially) who once worked for the NSA, that even in the 70's during the Vietnam war, every major American city had a warehouse full of video tape recorders (modified to not require video sync pulses) each recording their own 4-MHz slice of the entire RF spectrum. At any time later, they could output the recorded "video" signal into a communications receiver, and tune into radio traffic of the past, if something drew their attention to a particular event they wanted to investigate. I still believe what he told me, because we had the technology and the NSA had the budget and desire. These days they are the largest consumer of hard drives, by far, and they claim that having AIs monitor your private communications does not violate any privacy laws (as if they care anyway, according to Snowden).
And regarding Google, I got to sit in one of their self-driving cars. I should post the 3D photo, eh?