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Re: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends


From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 13:17:10 -0700

On Mon 2015-Jul-06 18:17:01 +0000, Dan Gamble <dgamble () wavebroadband com> wrote:

It gives it to one degree of friends on <insert social media here>.  So those friends can't share it again.

I'm still changing my networks to EAP, though.

We've been had! This is all just a giant ploy by Microsoft to push EAP adoption on WLANs! Expect to see some turn-key RADIUS solution from Microsoft in Windows 10. Marketing headline:

"Prevent unauthorized access to your corporate WLANs! For the low price of $OH-MY-GOD-YOU-MUST-BE-JOKING!, get Windows Systems Center WLAN Defender today!"

Those sly devils... ;)

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