Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

Anurag Bhatia me at anuragbhatia.com
Mon Jul 6 19:13:31 UTC 2015


Yeah that's scary!



I have seen similar feature across multiple apps on Android and iOS. To
deal with them I do mac filtering along with WPA + separate guest network
where I can share password.


On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:17 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:29:53 -0700, "Daniel C. Eckert" said:
>
> > try to verbally tell someone what the new SSID is? Bonus points for
> dealing
> > with users in a context where you've had the same SSID for years.
>
> Bonus points for telling 40,000 users what the new campus SSID is....
>
> Was Microsoft *trying* to make sure they weren't welcome in enterprise
> environments?
>
> ObNANOG:  How does this interact with Comcast/Xfinity's wireless hotspot
> thing, where it *used* to be that customers could get on anyplace, but now
> it's "customers and anybody they happen to know?"
>



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