Windows 10 and WiFi Passwords

[burrina]

Surely Microsoft and the NSA are sleeping together! Hey, thanks for sharing my password with the world! :banghead:

 

[Vassago]

What you talkin' bout, Willis?

 

[burrina]

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.

Don't you just Love it ?

 

[Vassago]

Oh, I don't use Outlook for more than this reason.

 

[Vassago]

Or Skype for that matter.

 

[Brianwarnock]

Why is this in the watercooler?

Brian

 

[Vassago]

Just someone complaining I suppose. It's not really a request for help.

 

[marlan]

Google has way more knowledge on my network, my computer, and of me...
And they have proven to know what to do with this knowledge!

 

[burrina]

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated, we are Microsoft!