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If you set up your network using radius, this becomes a non-issue radius is not horribly hard to set up either - its also not automatic, the user has to choose to share the wifi password - which they could do anyhow, as you've given it to them to connect.

https://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/how-to/wp8/connectivity/w... - Section: "I'm concerned about sharing WiFi networks. Can you tell me a little more?"

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When home networking equipment start shipping with RADIUS servers you might have a point, but right now all they can do is forward RADIUS authentication requests to your RADIUS authentication server.

RouterOS ships with one. But RouterOS/Mikrotik offers some pretty incredible functionality at a sub-$35 price point. It is very atypical of anything (even in the SMB space).

However RouterOS isn't a "consumer" system by design. In fact you better have solid network knowledge or you'll struggle even as a power user.

Radius?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS

Radius is an authentication protocol that is quite widely used, including in WPA-Enterpise. Here there is no fixed password, but a system that allows multiple users with separate passwords.

By using WPA-Enterprise, this wifi sense feature will likely do nothing.

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