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Information recorded in the logs are transmitted to google when you submit a crash report. So although they may not intend to send this information out, they're making it really easy for all this information to be inadvertently leaked to a third party (google).


Yeah, I'd absolutely agree that it's bad security practice to print sensitive information to a system-wide log. But the tone of the responses seem to suggest that people think this is something much more sinister.




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