Worse than the battery life implications are the security implications. I do not ever want to connect to some random, sniffed wifi network and have automaticall

Worse than the battery life implications are the security implications. I do not ever want to connect to some random, sniffed wifi network and have automatically all my data pulled to my notebook. However, as you will most certainly be able to disable that feature, I think it is a great addition, since there seems to be no downside. If you do not like it, do not install it :)