On 10 February 2010 21:00, Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin@googlemail.com wrote:
The point of the password is so you can prove to the web interface that you own the email address; so the fact that it is in your email box doesn't matter much. (If your email gets hacked this is the last thing you're likely to be worried about after all.) As it says on sign up "do not use a valuable password".
It doesn't require your email to be hacked, though. There is no security in the email system, they can be intercepted at any point.