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

Tue Jul 7 02:12:55 UTC 2015

> Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and
> Microsoft could have done that instead.

It *is* an option.  When you're setting up Windows 10, it asks you two
screens of configuration questions, but most people will hit the
"Use express settings" option and just blow past the choice.  I don't
know, most of the express settings seem to be craptacular to me, so I
always go through all the "defaults" and usually find myself flipping 
many/most of them.  But that's probably because I am not in search of
automated Cortana and Bing magic page prediction goodness that auto-
matically shares my name, location, and advertising ID with every 
random website that it possibly can (hyperbole??  maybe??)

http://winaero.com/blog/windows-10-build-10074-features-a-reworked-setup-experience/

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.

I didn't spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly how that'd
work.  I don't really want my "contacts" or any other data being sent
to Microsoft's servers.  I have my own servers that I'm reasonably
happy with.  I have an uneasy feeling that if set I'd find it to be
slurping a lot of data over to Microsoft's servers and I guess I would
not be shocked to find that 50 of my best friends on NANOG are suddenly
(and unexpectedly) populating WiFi passwords at me.

I suppose I could be wrong, but it's amazing how many LinkedIn invites
I get from people I've never heard of, who seem to only have a mailing
list in common, etc.

... JG
-- 
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