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Warning: Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends (and FB friends, and...)
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| June 30, 2015
| Simon Rockman
Posted on 06/30/2015 7:07:24 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: Auntie Dem
Hmmmm.... that’s a new twist on an old aphorism
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:11:15 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: dayglored
"..and so on...and so on...and so on...."
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:14:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: rarestia
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Also want to point out that this feature is only enabled if you allow it. There are opt-out checkboxes all over the place, and given that this is a Windows platform, if youre using the OS in a corporate environment, group policy is going to allow you to completely shut this down anyway. Where group policy enforcement is in play, yes, you're right.
But for the vast majority of Windows users, home and small business, I submit that the proper phrasing is "This feature is enabled unless you do something actively to disable it" and we all know that most users don't screw with system settings they don't understand, or don't see a compelling need to change.
I wouldn't have as much of a problem with this feature if the default was the other way around and they gave the user "checkboxes all over the place" to confirm that they understand about how this is a risk.
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:30:54 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
To: dayglored
I get it, but at some point, we, as engineers, have to step away and hope the users heeded our warnings. It frustrates me to no end when people update Adobe products and choose to install McAfee without realizing they did it. It’s a damn check box. Do you know what you’re checking?!
If you see a check box, you should scrutinize the verbiage next to it!
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:32:57 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: rarestia
Same thing about Java and the damn Ask toolbar. I want a global setting that tells Java Updates "NO, DAMMIT!" every time without me having to chase it down.
But NO-O-O-O-O...
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:34:54 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Meditate for twenty minutes every day, unless you are too busy, in which case meditate for an hour.)
To: dayglored
Check out Ninite. It updates all of your software without having to download individual packages. We use it in our desktop division, and they love it.
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posted on
07/01/2015 5:54:32 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: doc1019
“I will stick with my current version of Windows.”
hmmm....better stick with 3.1 to be on the safe side. ;-)
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