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

Tue Jul 7 18:59:02 UTC 2015

> On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:12:55 -0500, Joe Greco said:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> There's a subtle but important difference between that and "Allow this
> device to send sharing info to contacts".....

Is there?

The problem is that the text that's presented there is so vague as to
what it means that it is completely worthless to try to infer anything
from it.  Without going and researching it further, which may or may
not be feasible for some poor soul deploying the damn thing since it 
is quite possible it is their only computer, it is unclear whether it
might mean any one of a dozen or more things.

I could easily believe that setting this option could automagically
sign you up for SSID password sharing with your contacts.  Especially
the first time I saw it, I had no idea what it meant other than that
it was likely something that was probably in the bad to evil range,
because, well, that's the point, it doesn't actually SAY what it is
you're committing to.

The stuff later on (which is referenced in The Register article that
was initially quoted) may help make it a little clearer, but again,
there's a lot of bad, and you get to answer that first question without
knowing what the context is.

... JG
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