On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:35:08 AM MST Robert Marcano wrote:
> On 8/27/19 8:18 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM, Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org>
> > wrote:
> 
> >> There's no need to write "a new style of firewall". It would be as 
> >> easy as asking the user once whether a new connection is trusted or 
> >> not. That's it.
> > 
> > 
> > But, well, how do you do that? What do you show to the user?
> 
> 
> Maybe, now that NetworkManager implements now its own DHCP client, if 
> the IP received is not an private address (RFC 1918 for IPv4, some other 
> consideration should be done for IPv6), Notify the user the connection 
> is in a secure mode with an option to disable the secure, temporarily or 
> permanently
> 
> 
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That wouldn't work. If you hop on public wifi, your IP will most likely be in 
a private rang, which would be wide open under this proposal.

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John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
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