MIUI official response to "Wi-Fi password sharing" controversy

In yesterday's Millet mobile phone 3 Conference, MIUI V5 system in the "WLAN mutual sharing" function has aroused great concern, widely used at the same time also ushered in a query sound. The doubters believe that MIUI's "WLAN mutual sharing" feature can trigger a series of problems, such as private Wi-Fi network passwords leaking, malicious rubbing nets and so on. For these issues, the MIUI development team today made a positive response in the MIUI forum, as follows. Hello everyone: In the September 5 Millet Company annual New product conference, we introduced a test of the function: Wi-Fi sharing, sparked a lively discussion. The purpose of this feature development is simple: when you are in a public place, you can easily connect to the next to the Wi-Fi, and no longer need to ask the waiter/shopkeeper to inquire the password. Whether you are in a café or a hotel, the password is a matter of no pains. You have to keep asking and the waiter will explain or tell the different guests again and again. So we try to make this process smoother in some way. There are two points of concern at the heart of the controversy: 1. Ordinary users do not want private, corporate Wi-Fi to be shared by both individuals and corporate Wi-Fi are sensitive, and few people want to see their Wi-Fi being shared without permission. This is an uncomfortable behavior. 2, the public Wi-Fi owners worry that they do not get the corresponding return if I am a coffee shop owner, I am worried about: (1) will not have a lot of people rub the net and affect the normal consumer user experience? (2) What is the benefit of this technology to me? These concerns are quite normal. We have listed these two issues ourselves at the beginning of development, and have made a lot of very specific restrictions on these two issues. Due to the PowerPoint space of the Conference, there is no chance to explain many details. This has also brought a lot of friends who are not very knowledgeable about the technical details of the MIUI WIFI sharing function misunderstanding. We are saddened by the many accusations brought about by this misunderstanding. We would like to tell you that: 1, Wi-Fi sharing function only for users to connect to the public Wi-Fi. We've filtered both private and corporate WiFi. All Wi-Fi connection is the default does not share the password, only users to actively check the sharing will be shared. (Plan to do further action on the selected share in the next release, prompting users not to share private or corporate Wi-Fi) Wi-Fi that requires a username and password is not shared, and only a simple password can be shared. This Wi-Fi sharing can be recognized as valid if you need more than one person to share it. The above three points basically eliminates the possibility that the company and private WiFi are shared. Company Wi-Fi has security restrictions, for private or small-scale simple password Wi-Fi, if you really have a few friends to share your wifi does not count, because the "public WiFi" standard can not be considered invalid. When a Wi-Fi uses a simple password + hasMany people share, basically can think is public wi*fi. In addition to the plan has not had time to do also have a name filtering mechanism: The general personal WiFi naming has a certain law, for example, many people home routers do not change the name, directly with Dlinkxxx this. These we would consider to be personal Wi-Fi and directly filtered out. 2. The wifi that has been shared can be revoked we have started to set up the revocation and reporting function last week. First, users can revoke their share of public Wi-Fi if they feel wrong, and secondly, if you are the owner of a public Wi-Fi, you can also delete the WiFi in the Millet share record and not allow your own Wi-Fi to be shared. (The function needs to use the MIUI system of mobile phone, or access to a dedicated web site input router MAC address, directly delete the share, September 9 will be on line) 3, MIUI will be based on user feedback and comments continue to iterate over the new product MIUI has a constantly updated, fast trial and error culture. In the past three years we have had many ideas, many of which have been proven to be unreliable and have been killed by ourselves; many have been killed because users dislike them, and some have finally stayed. Wi-Fi sharing is also part of a quick trial error. It has user needs and should not compromise the user's interests, but we will not allow this feature to go into a wide range of versions until it is proven reliable and trustworthy. We welcome all users interested in this feature to visit the MIUI forum to express their views on the product to put forward their own opinions and suggestions. About the future of MIUI Wi-Fi sharing, we don't rule out all possibilities. This is in fact your decision.