In this election we're going to discuss a feature in Microsoft Tankel Wi-Fi sends in a post to Microsoft's
TechNet Web site announcing a preview.
Build one for free for to the anniversary edition of Windows 10.
Microsoft said the cost of updating the Wi-Fi sends code which is what it's like.
It was about Wi-Fi sense to keep the feature working coupled with its low usage and low demand no longer
justifies the existence of wife.
I sense a wife I sense is dead ish.
They also wrote Why five cents if enabled will continue to get you connected to open wife or hot spots.
It knows about through crowdsourcing.
And if this is enabled it will automatically connect you to detected crowdsourced Wi-Fi networks acquiring
network information and provide additional information to networks that require it.
Well the additional information is isn't really clear at this stage.
Additionally and this is the controversial part is it can be used to automatically share your wife find
password with your contacts on Facebook Skype and outlook and a Microsoft account is used to do this
sinking.
This is how Microsoft describes it.
When you share Wi-Fi network access with Facebook friends outlook dot com contacts or Skype contacts
they'll be connected to the password protected Wi-Fi network that you choose to share and get internet
access.
When they're in range of the networks if they use wife I sense like wise you'll be connected to Wi-Fi
networks that they share for internet access to remember.
You don't get to see what Find out what passwords and you both get internet access only they won't have
access to other computers devices or files stored on your home network and you won't have access to
those things on that network.
Well that's in theory.
So what I sense is switched off by default but you can check to see what the settings are.
And you probably are best because I have different versions sometimes have this enabled or disabled
and it depends on whether you do a custom install or whether you've done an express install.
So if you go to your start menu settings
network and Internet and then you can see manage wharfies settings and what you need to do under why
cents you need to disable everything.
And make sure the Wi-Fi sense is not working.
If you have enabled why five cents it will request permission to connect to Outlook.
Skype Facebook as you can see here are the users on your friends list who also enable Wi-Fi sense will
have their contact information shared with you as well.
This is obviously a privacy and security concern but the security side of it isn't black and white because
most people who share their Wi-Fi passwords manually anyway by writing them down or saying them verbally
and that's giving away your password any way to your guests so this isn't secure.
It sends the password isn't revealed to your guest but actually the best way to have guess if you want
to get on your network is to isolate and create a guest network on a separate villans.
Your guest never gets access to your network more than that whether you use and they don't know your
password.
And we'll discuss more on that later.
Another scary prospect is Microsoft and in fact any other company that will start to do this sort of
thing where they collect.
Why my passwords.
They really amass a huge database of Wi-Fi passwords of all the fine networks.
That becomes a huge target for attack and compromise.
And you also have to trust that these companies will secure those passwords and won't do anything untoward
with them and that they have your best interests at all times.
So I recommend keeping this turned off and using a guest network instead which we'll discuss later on.