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 honey pot for harvesting passwords) as unhealthy/bad, because the above bug will mean the system automatically connects. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487620 Title: wireless treats driver failure as network security refusal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1487620/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
