I also have this problem. I work at the University of Massachusetts CS Networking lab, and at my desk there is the wired network that I'm supposed to be on, and there are several wireless networks. If I leave my adapter enabled and boot at work, it automatically connects to a testbed wireless network called PVTA_5676, which is a network that is set up for busses, and allows for cached "fetch-when-available" networking using special software. This means that until I disable the adapter and reconnect to the wired network, I get responses stating that my request has been cached.
That's my own particular annoyance. But this is a security issue for the following reasons: - People 'trust' their wired ethernet connections to be relatively secure. - Not all wireless connections are encrypted. - This automatically connects the machine to a *NON-ENCRYPTED* wireless ethernet, regardless of whether the user has connected to it before. This means that the user may not notice, but their traffic to their email, etc, is flowing non-encrypted over the air, to a router they may not trust, when they think it's traveling through a hard line. This should be a high priority security bug: network manager should either not be allowed to connect through multiple interfaces at all, or should default to that behavior and have an option to allow multiple interface connections. (as a side note, it'd be nice to be able to scan whenever I want to, instead of having to wait when i turn on the wireless) -- [feisty] At boot-up I'm connected to an untrusted wireless network and Network Manager doesn't tell me about it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/114482 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
