The article is pretty scary, actually. It totally misses the main issue with Wifi Sense: I may want to share my wifi password with my friend Joe, but not all of his acquaintances. And it's only a checkbox away for it to be shared almost publicly (some people have thousands of contacts!).
There is this issue not mentionned in the article: in a lot of countries, the owner of the internet connection is legally responsible for whatever happens with their connection. Not only in north corea, also in countries like France. Will Microsoft take responsability if someone uses my internet link for illegal activities? Nope, because there will be no way to prove it's not me doing it.
There are so many red flags with Wi-fi Sense, it's like Microsoft wants to perpetuate its tradition of pointless features involving security issues. Why Ars Technica published such a misleading article if beyond understanding.
It's silly that the wifi owner has to opt-out of wifi sense. Because it's not like it's already difficult enough for a non-techie to securely configure his access point, no, let's add another thing he has to care/know about.
And the way to opt-out is even sillier: you have to append _optout to your SSID. The SSID should not be used to control the clients behaviour imho.
There is this issue not mentionned in the article: in a lot of countries, the owner of the internet connection is legally responsible for whatever happens with their connection. Not only in north corea, also in countries like France. Will Microsoft take responsability if someone uses my internet link for illegal activities? Nope, because there will be no way to prove it's not me doing it.
There are so many red flags with Wi-fi Sense, it's like Microsoft wants to perpetuate its tradition of pointless features involving security issues. Why Ars Technica published such a misleading article if beyond understanding.