[Touch-packages] [Bug 1487620] Re: wireless treats driver failure as network security refusal

2015-08-25 Thread Tyler Hicks
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a regular (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1487620] Re: wireless treats driver failure as network security refusal

2015-08-25 Thread Teunis Peters
The being pushed onto the nearest open network is the security risk part of the bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487620 Title: wireless treats

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1487620] Re: wireless treats driver failure as network security refusal

2015-08-25 Thread Teunis Peters
Open networks are a direct security risk, at least in some locations. And that does include the neighbours of my office.It's not immediately obvious one has been put into a security risk situation if one is busy working. There's also no obvious way to mark a network (even if it's visibly a

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1487620] Re: wireless treats driver failure as network security refusal

2015-08-25 Thread Teunis Peters
However, it blacklisting the active and VALID network because of a driver fault - that's not a security risk, that's just an ongoing nightmare. After it goes through the entire group of valid networks, that's when it starts hopping onto honeypots, and I can usually catch it before then. -- You