[Nottingham] Running Windows 10 or have Win 10 users on your network?

Jason Irwin jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 08:02:45 UTC 2015


Thanks to Andy F. on another list for this, copy-pasta follows:
>ElReg readers will already know this ...
>
>Don't worry about wireless password distribution, Windows will pass them
>to anyone who vaguely knows any of your users for free. This includes
>Facebook "Friends".
>
>Microsoft will also keep a copy of all the passwords on their systems to
>hand them out to other users and other agencies.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sense/
>
>What a stupid idea!

Agreed totally. Expect loads of "_optout" suffixed SSIDs to appear soon.

J.




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