Intel to offer ‘free’ Wi-Fi in its ultrabooks and tablets

Re:Intel to offer ‘free’ Wi-Fi in its ultrabooks and tablets by shpoonj on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @09:04PM (#4045755)

Connects automatically when in range of any supported network even when device is in sleep mode. What a wonderful way to needlessly drain your battery.

If your device is asleep during your commute, do you really expect it to have any charge left after driving through downtown and connecting to two dozen wifi networks?

Sounds like more Windows malware to me.

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Re:Intel to offer ‘free’ Wi-Fi in its ultrabooks and tablets by replax on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @09:40PM (#4045871)

Worse than the battery life implications are the security implications. I do not ever want to connect to some random, sniffed wifi network and have automatically all my data pulled to my notebook.

However, as you will most certainly be able to disable that feature, I think it is a great addition, since there seems to be no downside. If you do not like it, do not install it :)

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Re:Intel to offer ‘free’ Wi-Fi in its ultrabooks and tablets by dfxm12 on Thursday May 31, 2012 @08:42AM (#4047686)

But is it opt-in or opt-out? It is import to not introduce insecure defaults.

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Re:Intel to offer ‘free’ Wi-Fi in its ultrabooks and tablets by pedalpete on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @09:49PM (#4045889)

who said it was running windows? intel is not only windows, could be a linux machine as well, couldn't it?

I would expect any machine in sleep mode that is eyeing out for wifi networks to last considerably longer than my commute. Though I'm surprised they are able to keep searching for wifi while in sleep mode.

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