[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#655972: Bug#655972: Creating a new wireless network with WPA results in an unsecured network instead

[Michael Biebl]

On 15.01.2012 21:42, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 09:26:39PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> severity 655972 important
>> thanks
>>
>> On 15.01.2012 14:49, Josh Triplett wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that creating a network using WEP results in a WEP-"secured"
>>> network, rather than an unsecured network.  This issue only seems to
>>> happen when attempting to create a WPA network.
>>
>> Given that this particular feature (to create a WPA secured accesspoint)
>> is not that often used
> 
> Given that WEP provides almost no security at all, you're suggesting
> that wanting a secure wireless network does not represent the common
> case?

No, what I meant is that the majority of users never use NM to create an
Ad-Hoc wireless network. The common usage of NM is to connect to
infrastructure wireless networks.

>> and that an open wireless AP does not imply that
>> the users data is accessible,
> 
> An open wireless AP where the user expected a secured one (and where the
> UI claims they have one) can lead to revealed user data in several
> different ways.
> 
>> I'm downgrading the severity to important
>> as imho this reflects more appropriately the severity of this bug.
> 
> Might I suggest instead marking it as grave due to the security
> implications but marking it as present in both testing and unstable so
> it doesn't affect propagation to testing?

As the current version in unstable is also in testing, testing
propagation is not affected by this bug anyway.


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