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

[Stephen Partington]

I do have to say, It has been nice to do a fresh install and have it sync
my wifi information and auto-magically connect. Android will do the same
thing. I am just annoyed by the lack of control on who shares my WIFI data.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> Stephen
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Stephen
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