Totally agree. I'm actually surprised at how many people assume this was done with malicious intent.
There are still plenty of sites storing plaintext passwords. I doubt there's a data mining conspiracy there (although I bet you could make some interesting guesses about people based on their password choice). It's just a poor design that accomplishes its task in the simplest way possible.
> I'm actually surprised at how many people assume this was done with malicious intent.
I don't care whether or not it was done with malicious intent. What bothers me is that copies of my address book are floating around out there without my permission.
There are still plenty of sites storing plaintext passwords. I doubt there's a data mining conspiracy there (although I bet you could make some interesting guesses about people based on their password choice). It's just a poor design that accomplishes its task in the simplest way possible.