Which means William Binney was right. The government, via the NSA, really is collecting, recording, and storing digitally telephone records, emails, and other Internet communications domestically for the purposes of gathering intelligence. A former NSA official, Binney certainly was in a position to know.
For WPA/WPA2 preshared keys, the DataOut.pbData will contain the plaintext password. Unlike WPA/WPA2 keys, WEP keys are stored in hex format, i.e., the output buffer will store the key in its binary representation. A single post-processing step is required to convert the binary string to hex:
Passwords in PowerShell can be stored in a number of different forms: String - Plain text strings. Used to store any text and of course these can store passwords too. Strings are unsecure, they are stored in memory as plain text and most cmdlets will not accept passwords in this form. System.Security.SecureString - This type is like the usual string, but its content are encrypted in memory.