# Windows 10 Shares Your WiFi Passwords With Your Contacts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-shares-your-wifi-passwords-with-your-contacts/726593>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-shares-your-wifi-passwords-with-your-contacts/726593 "2015-07-30T19:00:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-shares-your-wifi-passwords-with-your-contacts/726593/22 "2015-08-02T12:27:56Z")

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> [@filmore](#):
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> I’m inferring from this that means Microsoft will have a huge database of SSID to WiFi passwords?
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> I may have lots of people in my contacts who I don’t want access to my network. I can imagine someone on the condo board having everyone in the building in their contact list, but that doesn’t mean that they want everyone in the building to use their wifi.

Then leave it off, and write your wifi password on a post-it note and stick it to the underside of your keyboard. If somebody is visiting and wants access, show them the post-it note.

It’s not a perfect system, and it doesn’t work for everybody. Do you want your operating system to have enough deductive capability to figure out who should have access, and deny them access selectively? I sure don’t.

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