[olivierduval]

It's sad for you and I hope that you will find a way to manage this problem with Google...

However, I'm quite shocked when you write "when things were free, so I doubt anybody actually thought about abuse of the key at that time" It look like - for you - having something free mean having something you can use without any care! From my point of view, if someone give me something for nothing, I will thank and try to use it wisely... But maybe I didn't understand what you meant

[jjeaff]

He probably means that they didn't see much reason to carefully secure a key for a free service. After all, why would anyone steal a key for a completely free service?

[Spooky23]

I don’t treat the credentials for hacker news with the same level of care that I provide for my Bitcoin wallet.