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

Tue Jul 7 19:30:36 UTC 2015

On 06/07/15 19:12, Joe Greco wrote:
>> Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and
>> Microsoft could have done that instead.
> 
> It *is* an option.

Opt-in and opt-out are two models of having an option.

Also I meant being opt-out for the network administrator regarding the
availability of the _optout suffix. Instead it should have been opt-in
by the use of some _share suffix.

> Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes 
> there's an option for "Automatically connect to networks shared by my
> contacts" and it CAN be turned off, but it defaults to on.

That's an option for the users, not for the network administrator.

As a network administrator (at home, at work, whatever) I have some
trust for my users but not necessarily for the friends of my users. The
decision should be up to the network administrator, not the user.

The way it's implemented, user inaction makes him/her violate network
usage policy.

Best regards.
Octavio.