On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:12:55 -0500, Joe Greco said:
http://winaero.com/blog/windows-10-build-10074-features-a-reworked-setup-exp...
Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes there's an option for "Automatically connect to networks shared by my contacts" and it CAN be turned off, but it defaults to on.
There's a subtle but important difference between that and "Allow this device to send sharing info to contacts".....
Is there? The problem is that the text that's presented there is so vague as to what it means that it is completely worthless to try to infer anything from it. Without going and researching it further, which may or may not be feasible for some poor soul deploying the damn thing since it is quite possible it is their only computer, it is unclear whether it might mean any one of a dozen or more things. I could easily believe that setting this option could automagically sign you up for SSID password sharing with your contacts. Especially the first time I saw it, I had no idea what it meant other than that it was likely something that was probably in the bad to evil range, because, well, that's the point, it doesn't actually SAY what it is you're committing to. The stuff later on (which is referenced in The Register article that was initially quoted) may help make it a little clearer, but again, there's a lot of bad, and you get to answer that first question without knowing what the context is. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.