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It's a gray area--on one hand, most people might not expect any info to be sent until they hit enter, but it's a debatable point (ICQ users were accustomed to seeing the text come through letter-by-letter, for example).
And for this use case, I can't imagine a huge danger of typing in something that you weren't intending to type--maybe a copy/paste error, but it's hard to justify it as a serious threat to privacy.
I'm with you on preferring that it were implemented the other way, but between the moral gray area and difficulty in implementing safeguards, I don't think there's much to be done other than practicing caution.