Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 21/10/2017, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Samstag, den 21.10.2017, 15:11 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> On 21/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> I am not aware of any WPA2 security upgrades, being available, to
>> protect against the defined ("KRAK" ?) problem, as yet.
>>
>
> it has been fixed in ubuntu on the 16th:
> https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3455-1/
>
> and has already been rolled out to all users for all supported ubuntu
> releases (14.04, 16.04, 17.04 and 17.10) on that day...
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>
>

One of the significant points that should, I believe, be remembered,
regarding the WPA2 vulnerability, is that it is a muli-platform
problem, so that every device that uses WPA2, is affected, so, for
example, each modem or router within a network, each cellphone, each
printer that uses WPA2 in WiFi access, each tablet PC, etc, etc, etc.

And, some cellphones, such as Android cellphones, simply never get
system updates, once their particular Android version becomes
superseded.

It would have been helpful, if, when Ubuntu implemented the security
patch for the KRAK (?) WPA2 vulnerability, it was announced on this
mailing list, as such.

It would have been much more helpful, than the gratuitous personal
attacks that have been made recently.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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