On 10 February 2010 21:00, Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin(a)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.