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Windows 10 shares your Wi-Fi Passwords with your contacts
- brownbat 11y agoSome caveats: * Sense does not actually show your Wi-Fi password at all. * Wi-Fi Sense only grants Internet access, meaning that your friends will not be able to access shared files and printers * Wi-Fi Sense will not work on enterprise networks that use the 802.1X standard * You have to opt in to share a network. [0] * This really only benefits people with a Windows Phone and cellular data? [1] * This is a baby step towards the open wireless movement. Open access for people you already have some random connection to. I'd admittedly rather see ubiquitous guest modes that are easy to throttle, where you could subscribe to some blacklist for bad sites to prevent misuse of resources. Open access works better when it safely provides wifi to people you don't know at all. [2] [0] http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness/wi-fi-sense-fud-and-you/#.VZWE_jUVgXo.linkedin http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2f3d8q/how_does_wifi_sense_actually_work/ck5m0zp https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2f3d8q/how_do... [2] https://openwireless.org/ https://openwireless.org/
- gambiting 11y agoWhat happens in the situation where both me and my friend have routers with identical SSIDs but different passwords? My former flatmate took one of our routers when we split, and uses the same SSID but a different password - so I can't connect to his wifi without forgetting mine first.
- cmdrfred 11y agoI assume it uses mac adresses, there are a billion routers named "Linksys"