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Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi Password With Contacts

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-not-share dept.

gsslay writes: The Register reports that Windows 10 will include, defaulted on, "Wi-Fi Sense" which shares wifi passwords with Outlook.com contacts, Skype contacts and, with an opt-in, Facebook friends. This involves Microsoft storing the wifi passwords entered into your laptop which can then be used by any other person suitably connected to you. If you don't want someone's Windows 10 passing on your password, Microsoft has two solutions; only share passwords using their Wi-Fi Sense service, or by adding "_optout" to your SSID.

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  1. There goes my SSID :( by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    FBI Surveillance Van #1_optout just looks dreadful.

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    1. Re:There goes my SSID :( by PoopMonkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why'd you cave? If they complained, you should've renamed it to Anal Fisting Funhouse.

  2. Re:Bad Summary, Only new part is the sharing optio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    And we have now identified the NSA operative.

  3. Microsoft is widely misunderstood. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I would like to see explained in more detail

    Explanation: Microsoft is widely misunderstood. People think that Microsoft is a software company that does evil. That's not true. Microsoft's main purpose is delivering evil. The software is just a means of doing that. (My opinion, shared with others.)

    1. Re:Microsoft is widely misunderstood. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What I would like to see explained in more detail

      Explanation: Microsoft is widely misunderstood. People think that Microsoft is a software company that does evil. That's not true. Microsoft's main purpose is delivering evil. The software is just a means of doing that. (My opinion, shared with others.)

      So you mean evil as a service, rather than evil as a platform?

    2. Re:Microsoft is widely misunderstood. by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

      Evil as a user experience.

  4. Re:if that's true, by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Friends-of-friends-of-friends-of-friends? How deep can this go? The whole six-degrees-of-separation thing comes to mind... could this end up pushing almost everyone's network passwords to the entire connected internet? Yeah, I'd like more info, and the sooner the better.

    Sounds like Kevin Bacon will have access to everything!

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  5. Re:if that's true, by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spoiler alert: Kevin Bacon already has access to everything.

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