UH OH: Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

Updated A Windows 10 feature, Wi-Fi Sense, smells like a security risk: it can share access to private Wi-Fi networks with the user's friends. Those friends include their Outlook.com (nee Hotmail) contacts, Skype contacts and, with an opt-in, their Facebook friends. There is method in the Microsoft madness – it saves having to shout across the office or house “what’s the Wi-Fi password?” – but eas

[causeless]

"@jingbay Win10のWifi SenseはデフォルトでONだ。ユーザは最初の接続時にチェックボックスを外さなければ接続が友人とshareされてしまう。 MSの設計者は死んで…" via https://twitter.com/jingbay/status/616181477441671168

[itotto]

"In theory, someone who wanted access to your company network could befriend an employee or two, and drive into the office car park to be in range, and then gain access to the corporate wireless network."

[y-kawaz]

Windows10のWiFi Senseて機能がヤバそう。Outlook/Skype/Facebookの友達や友達の友達へWiFiパスワードを自動共有って…。共有されたくなきゃSSIDに_optoutを付けろだ？ふざけた仕様だ。