Windows 10: What is the sense of some WiFi Settings in Windows 10?

What is the sense of WiFi settings in Windows 10 for 'Randomize Device's Address' that lot of PCs do not have this option? Does it really improve the safety against someone get into your pc or anything else? If this option is not available cause of WiFi drivers, does it mean that someone could easily give you virus and then therefore through Mac Address attack or block your PC? Or is it same safe for the PC if someone doesn't have it available?I mean I really wonder what is it for? And if at home, does it protects you more from someone attack your pc with virus and then making your Mac Address

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Windows 10 WiFi sense...


Thanks TairikuOkami...

Are there other listeners that collect WiFi connection information?

I did a registry search for my SSID, doing so identified an entry that the admin account has no access to:
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WcmSvc\wifinetworkmanager\SharedProfiles]

Trying to access the "SharedProfiles" pops up this window:





Looking at the property pops up a different windows:





The advance property setting does not identify the current owner for this registry folder, but the admin can change the ownership. While it's unlikely that taking ownership would break W10, I'll do a backup first sometimes this weekend...

Presumably, this is the registry folder where the local WiFi connection details are stored, in addition to any other WiFi connections that friends had shared.

There are other registry entries accessible for my SSID in the registry that stores:

1. the SSID name
2. seemingly the preshared key, encrypted, for WPA2 based encryption
3. MAC address of the access point, SSID in question

That's perfectly fine, as long as this information stays local on the system in question. On the other hand, uploading this information to the cloud and sharing decided by MS is questionable in my view...

 

Windows 10 WiFi sense...

The point was that the one-click disable does not disable WiFi Sense; the system will continue collecting/uploading WiFi connection data, unless the "_optout" added to the SSID name.

Makes me wonder how many one-click disable behave the same way in W10 as WiFi Sense does...

 

Laptop connects to wifi-sense TWC Wifi network, despite my settings

Can't you just go into the wifi settings and tell it to "forget" these wanted networks?