Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi password to strangers

Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by dd9990 on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:46PM (#9751001)

"The only way to opt out of this "feature" is to change the name of your SSID to include _optout at the end"

Google requires you to have "_nomap" at the end of SSIDs to "opt out" of certain services...

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by zzleeper on Saturday June 20, 2015 @04:50PM (#9751015)

So you are saying I can't opt out of both? Or will they take XYZ_nomap_optout ?

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by Nullabillity on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:19PM (#9751078)

The Microsoft page says it has to contain _optout, not that it has to end with it.

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by OJFord on Saturday June 20, 2015 @08:06PM (#9751512)

Presumably for this reason; so XYZ_optout_nomap works. But this is just silly.

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by sebastianavina on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:14AM (#9752139)

Imagine SSIDs in a couple of years...

COMCAST56B4_nomap_output_security_reinforce_superhappy_wifienable_security_ALLOW-P^[A-Za-z0-9\.]+$-_DISALLOW-P^[pet][0-9]$

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by wfunction on Saturday June 20, 2015 @05:14PM (#9751066)

Probably the former.

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by RexRollman on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:15PM (#9751692)

So it's becoming the robots.txt of routers?

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by nly on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:38PM (#9751443)

Why do they do this instead of just ignoring networks with hidden SSIDs?

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by icebraining on Saturday June 20, 2015 @08:53PM (#9751637)

I believe they also ignore hidden SSIDs, but those come with other problems, so they added a way to opt-out without hiding it.

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by ytdht on Saturday June 20, 2015 @08:23PM (#9751557)

are you saying that SSIDs should have infinite lengths?

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Re:Windows 10 “WiFi Sense” automatically leaks your wifi pas... by ytdht on Saturday June 20, 2015 @11:49PM (#9752081)

sorry if you don't have a sense of humor as this was clearly not a serious question

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