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[Matthew Flaschen]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> Automatically connecting to strange, unsecured wireless networks is a
>> security risk, yet this does appear to be NetworkManager's default
>> behavior.
> 
> it's not.  Network Manager won't automatically connect to a _strange_ 
> unsecured network.  It maintains a list of networks that you have told it to 
> connect to, and it _should_ (but routinely doesn't) automatically connect to 
> thise - secure or not.

Thanks, Derek.  My mistake.  I got misled by the "Untrusted" list of
networks in KNetworkManager settings.  What is the difference between an
Untrusted network and an unknown network?

Matt Flaschen