Here is an update we can get behind! Windows 10 Build 14342 will no longer have WiFi Sense, that bizarre feature which Microsoft added which would pass on any of your stored WiFi passwords to your contacts as well as overriding your preferred network if one of your contacts signals was available. This caused a certain amount of alarm as you might not trust every contact you might have on Outlook.com with your WiFi password nor trust their WiFi networks. The blather about high cost and low demand is an interesting cover for changing their minds, regardless it is good to see it go. There were a couple of other updates included in this release, check them out at The Inquirer.
"We have removed the WiFi Sense feature that allows you to share WiFi networks with your contacts and to be automatically connected to networks shared by your contacts," explained Aul."
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It should be forever known as
It should be forever known as WiFi SenseLess, and M$ is known to take things like this and move them deep under some UN-changeable part of windows 10’s nefarious code base! That ”feature” may still be around and buried deep inside the nether regions of that spy-ware known as windows 10! Those passwords will still be in Redmond’s cloud, to be of some three letter agencies’ use!
You’re hilarious.
You’re hilarious.
And likely correct.
And likely correct.
I never saw this as a
I never saw this as a security issue once I understood what it actually did. My only real question is who the hell would use this and what problem does it really solve? I suspect they removed the feature was because the answer is: nobody and none.
I would say Windows Phone
I would say Windows Phone users but then you would ask who uses Windows Phone and I would not have an answer to that…
I hope they fired the little
I hope they fired the little c__ksuckers that thought it up in the first place.
I actually liked this
I actually liked this feature…but I don’t think I’ll miss it much.
Same here. In fact, I bought
Same here. In fact, I bought a new laptop and it still connects to all my previous wifi spots because of wifi sense. I hope they at least store these passwords in my Microsoft account profile so it keeps doing that. I get new laptops/reimage my systems often and my job requires me to travel a lot. So the ability to carry over these wifi passwords on to each system I use is great. I am sad to see it go.
Link to the article at The
Link to the article at The Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2457727/microsoft-kills-wifi-sense-in-windows-10-build-14342
(I couldn’t find it in Jeremy’s post.)
Don’t worry. M$ (and other
Don’t worry. M$ (and other gov acronyms) will get all your passwords whether you like it or not. With or without ‘official’ Senseless WiFi.
Why does the government want
Why does the government want to connect to your wifi? Or are you just joking around?