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I am sure that this is not what this site is for. But...

For a moment I thought: What a great attack vector. Collect WiFi passwords from around the globe.

My first though was "Why would I ever enter my wifi credentials into a web form?", but perhaps there are people who would...

To be fair it’s fairly easy to check that it didn’t send any data over the wire

> To be fair it’s fairly easy to check that it didn’t send any data over the wire

... after the fact ...

... for a user of the web app who watches the network panel from their browser's developer tools

You just send false info first.

Well, maybe the site sends all the passwords when you close the tab. The point is not to get used to entering passwords to third party websites.

"just"? The above comment is overconfident.

Yeah, 99% of the society also knows how to do that.

No better than obfuscated JavaScript to give trust to the average HN reader.