Time to teach home-routers WPA Enterprise auth? Then at least you know whom to blame :-) and just one user to disconnect instead of everybody who previously had the key.
Well, but if "friends" were to share your wifi-key through other ways the end-result would be the same. Just hand your key to "clueful" people. I think the point here is that we might assume people have a lot of good friends who don't know what they are doing (have things like this enabled by default)? Hmm ... yeah might be :-( Kind regards, Stefan Am 06.07.2015 um 20:29 schrieb Daniel C. Eckert: > This isn't really an open source issue -- anybody can make foolish product > design decisions regardless of licensing model. This is more about a vendor > producing a feature that deliberately and shortsightedly creates a slew of > problems impacting almost all existing networks anywhere. It's highly > convenient feature for a specific, limited use case (home users hosting a > party with a bunch of people that they don't want to have to worry about > how to give them a network password). However, gat ignores all of the other > security and user impact issues. Can you imagine how the user experience > will change when you change your SSID to include the _optout tag and then > try to verbally tell someone what the new SSID is? Bonus points for dealing > with users in a context where you've had the same SSID for years. > On Jul 6, 2015 11:17 AM, "Richard Golodner" <rgolod...@infratection.com> > wrote: > >> There is a reason why my family loves open source. My kid is learning >> Linux and she doesn't even know it. Mommy has an Android... >> >> On 07/06/2015 12:53 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >> >>> >From Lauren, a new "feature" in Windows 10 I think this community >>> probably >>> wants to know about, to the extent you don't already. >>> >>> I *knew* I didn't like W10. :-) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- jra >>> >>> ----- Forwarded Message ----- >>> >>>> From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" <priv...@vortex.com> >>>> To: privacy-l...@vortex.com >>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 8:03:06 PM >>>> Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with >>>> your friends' friends >>>> Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends >>>> >>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30/windows_10_wi_fi_sense/ [...]
