http://www.howtogeek.com/219700/what-is-wi-fi-sense-and-why-does-it-want-your-facebook-account/
This seemed like a cool idea for the first five seconds but then the security implications hit me. Basically if one of your friends decides to share the password they have for your wifi then it goes to all their friends.If those friends decide to share, it will again get shared out. That's already one hell of a lot of people who know my WiFi password.
Surely that will quickly spiral out of control with the number of wifi passwords your computer is holding, unless you have to know someone with X degrees/hops.
You cannot determine which friends have access, it's all or nothing.
The bit that made me laugh though was this:
"What If You Don’t Want Your Wi-Fi Connection Passphrase Shared?
You might not want to use Wi-Fi Sense. Bear in mind that the sharing is indiscriminate — if you use it, it will share access to your Wi-Fi with all of your Facebook friends without letting you pick and choose who gets access.
If someone connects to your network with a Windows 10 device, they can choose to share the connection details with all their friends — at least those friends using Windows 10. You can choose to opt out of this by changing your wireless network name, or SSID, to end with _optout. In other words, if your network name is currently “HomeNetwork”, Microsoft would like you to change the name to “HomeNetwork_optout” to opt out."
This seemed like a cool idea for the first five seconds but then the security implications hit me. Basically if one of your friends decides to share the password they have for your wifi then it goes to all their friends.If those friends decide to share, it will again get shared out. That's already one hell of a lot of people who know my WiFi password.
Surely that will quickly spiral out of control with the number of wifi passwords your computer is holding, unless you have to know someone with X degrees/hops.
You cannot determine which friends have access, it's all or nothing.
The bit that made me laugh though was this:
"What If You Don’t Want Your Wi-Fi Connection Passphrase Shared?
You might not want to use Wi-Fi Sense. Bear in mind that the sharing is indiscriminate — if you use it, it will share access to your Wi-Fi with all of your Facebook friends without letting you pick and choose who gets access.
If someone connects to your network with a Windows 10 device, they can choose to share the connection details with all their friends — at least those friends using Windows 10. You can choose to opt out of this by changing your wireless network name, or SSID, to end with _optout. In other words, if your network name is currently “HomeNetwork”, Microsoft would like you to change the name to “HomeNetwork_optout” to opt out."
just think of the convenience
