On 15 August 2017 at 14:32, Will Cooke <will.co...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On 12 August 2017 at 14:37, Robie Basak <robie.ba...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> >> I'd like to draw attention to this bug: >> >> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1681513 "Ubuntu 17.04/17.10: New feature in >> NetworkManager stops several WiFi adapters from working (MAC Address >> Randomization issue)" > > > > Thanks for raising this Robie. > > It's our opinion that if this feature breaks things for /some/ users then > it's worth turning off for everyone. While this is a step backwards in > privacy, it's such a tricky problem for users to understand and get support > on that we think we should make it "off by default". > > This can still be overridden on a per device basis by the user if desired. >
Please note that for all ubuntu cloud images we disable MAC Address Randomization, because privacy is of less of a concern (most clouds masquarade internet access, thus MAC does not leak publically, and internally each tenant have their own network, and there is thus value in having stable MAC Addresses for persistent VMs). Therefore, if desktop decides to have MAC Address Randomization off by default, it makes sense to change this as a distro-wide / kernel setting. And document how to opt-in via netplan / networkd / NetworkManager / cloud config. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
