Microsoft WiFi Sense BS Meter Approaching Warning Levels
Simply speechless at the shenanigans in Redmond, what with the monkeying with WiFi key sharing, and all. Let's see what other sources have to say about [WiFi Sense][1].
Brian Krebs, from Krebs on Security, speaks the truth with obious clarity:
"This brilliant new feature, which Microsoft has dubbed Wi-Fi Sense, doesn’t share your WiFi network password per se — it shares an encrypted version of that password. But it does allow anyone in your Skype or Outlook or Hotmail contacts lists to waltz onto your Wi-Fi network — should they ever wander within range of it or visit your home (or hop onto it secretly from hundreds of yards away with a good ‘ole cantenna!)." - via Brian Krebs at Krebs on Security
And this from the El Reg's Simon Rockman:
Wi-Fi Sense doesn’t reveal the plaintext password to your family, friends, acquaintances, and the chap at the takeaway who's an Outlook.com contact, but it does allow them, if they are also running Wi-Fi Sense, to log in to your Wi-Fi. The password must be stored centrally by Microsoft, and is copied to a device for it to work; Microsoft just tries to stop you looking at it. How successful that will be isn't yet known. - via Simon Rockman at El Reg