I think we need a little more detail on the threat model here. The person running a Wi-Fi network can monitor your traffic, regardless of whether it is open, WEP, WPA, or anything else. Right?
If so, the only difference here between network types is whether someone *other* than the person running the network can snoop on your traffic. They can if it's open, if it's WEP, if it's WPA-TKIP, if it's WPA with WPS, or if it's WPA with MS-CHAPv2. Correct? It may make sense to design the fix for bug 1258496 at the same time as this bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Unity API bugs, which is subscribed to Network Menu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1411527 Title: should prompt the user when connecting to an insecure network Status in Network Menu: Triaged Bug description: To protect the user, we should inform the user that he is trying to connect to a potentially insecure network (Open, WEP, WPA). [Young Pirate hacker gets top security secrets] http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17828 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-network/+bug/1411527/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs Post to : unity-api-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-api-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
