Re: Windows 10 – Microsoft’s Big Data-grabbing (or spying?) OS

[Bob Elzer]

Yes, you really don't  have a choice, even with optout it still gets sent.

And why do I have to change my cool looking wifi name, just to prevent
microsoft from spreading it.

With every security person telling you to protect your passwords, why are
there no lawyers suing MS for passing out our passwords like candy.

I just keep shaking my head about this one.
On Aug 18, 2015 6:33 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> you get the choice of sharing with your friends. and it is specifically
> your friends only that get that information. My concern is if i bring my
> friend over and he is sharing his wifi ap information I do not get the
> option of who he shares with, just if it is shared.
>
> MS has said they are working on improving this feature due to concerns,
> but for now _optout is the only option.
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well wifi-sense will share your wifi password. What gets me is microsoft
>> is saving a database of all these passwords.
>>
>> They say you can add _optout to your wifi name and it will stop the
>> sharing, but it could take up to two hours to do so.
>>
>> That means to me, that they ignore the optout, store your password and
>> then dont give it out, but still keep it around.
>>
>> HOw the government would let this go on, is beyond me.
>>
>> is every business going to have to change their access point names ?
>>
>> First windows 10  phone to enter the pentagon, will send out all the
>> passwords lmao.
>> On Aug 17, 2015 7:00 AM, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> ​While they are broad, these are all things you can turn on or off.​
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/windows-10-microsofts-big-data-grabbing-spying-os-bernard-marr
>>>>
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