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

Mon Jul 6 18:39:54 UTC 2015

Time to teach home-routers WPA Enterprise auth? Then at least you know
whom to blame :-) and just one user to disconnect instead of everybody
who previously had the key.

Well, but if "friends" were to share your wifi-key through other ways
the end-result would be the same. Just hand your key to "clueful"
people. I think the point here is that we might assume people have a lot
of good friends who don't know what they are doing (have things like
this enabled by default)? Hmm ... yeah might be :-(

Kind regards,
 Stefan

Am 06.07.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Daniel C. Eckert:
> This isn't really an open source issue -- anybody can make foolish product
> design decisions regardless of licensing model. This is more about a vendor
> producing a feature that deliberately and shortsightedly creates a slew of
> problems impacting almost all existing networks anywhere. It's highly
> convenient feature for a specific, limited use case (home users hosting a
> party with a bunch of people that they don't want to have to worry about
> how to give them a network password). However, gat ignores all of the other
> security and user impact issues. Can you imagine how the user experience
> will change when you change your SSID to include the _optout tag and then
> 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.
> On Jul 6, 2015 11:17 AM, "Richard Golodner" <rgolodner at infratection.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> There is a reason why my family loves open source. My kid is learning
>> Linux and she doesn't even know it. Mommy has an Android...
>>
>> On 07/06/2015 12:53 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>
>>> >From Lauren, a new "feature" in Windows 10 I think this community
>>> probably
>>> wants to know about, to the extent you don't already.
>>>
>>> I *knew* I didn't like W10.  :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- jra
>>>
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>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sense/

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