[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-23 Thread Tomás Zubiri
@AlexMurray Genuine question. Does this mean that I shouldn't connect untrusted usb devices to my computer because it can unilaterally decide to snoop my traffic? So far my understanding has been that usb devices cannot run arbitrary programs and are thus safe to connect, with the exception of

[Bug 1879211] Re: Charging my cellphone through usb breaks internet connection.

2020-05-22 Thread Tomás Zubiri
Sensible. If that were the case, a solution would rely in the capacity of the network manager to detect that the new route does not work,(and that the previous one did) My naïve solution would be to ping a reliable server (I use 8.8.8.8) and delete the new route if it timesout. Additionally, if