Bug #10559

MAC spoofing failure notification should point to the corresponding documentation

Added by intrigeri 2015-11-17 05:41:03 . Updated 2019-02-25 18:32:03 .

Status:
Confirmed
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
Category:
Spoof MAC
Target version:
Start date:
2019-01-23
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Research
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
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Description

It was implemented initially, and then the move to Wheezy made the link invisible (Bug #7249), and for Jessie Bug #7989 lead us to remove it. It would be great to tell the user what to do when MAC spoofing fails.

As the blueprint linked above points out:

  • a desktop notification may not be the best way to convey this message;
  • a process started in the background in a udev hook may not be the best way to trigger that notification.

So this needs both UX and implementation research, quite possibly done together (this is a corner case, and we don’t want to design something perfect that’s so hard to implement that it’ll never be done).

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #7249: Truncated notifications Resolved 2015-06-18
Related to Tails - Bug #7989: Jessie: raw HTML is displayed in desktop notifications Resolved 2014-10-02 2015-10-15
Related to Tails - Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements In Progress 2018-08-31
Related to Tails - Bug #16260: Notification on MAC spoofing failure is truncated Confirmed 2018-12-31
Blocked by Tails - Bug #16385: Research how frequent MAC spoofing failures are Resolved 2019-01-23

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-17 05:41:22

  • related to Bug #7249: Truncated notifications added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-17 05:41:28

  • related to Bug #7989: Jessie: raw HTML is displayed in desktop notifications added

#3 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-18 10:14:06

There is a blueprint supposed to be linked here, but it is not. It might have been https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/macchanger/ or https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/network_connection/

#4 Updated by sajolida 2018-08-21 15:43:21

  • related to Feature #14544: Spend software developer time on smallish UX improvements added

#5 Updated by sajolida 2019-01-18 15:33:34

  • related to Bug #16260: Notification on MAC spoofing failure is truncated added

#6 Updated by sajolida 2019-01-23 16:22:11

  • blocked by Bug #16385: Research how frequent MAC spoofing failures are added

#7 Updated by sajolida 2019-02-25 18:32:03

  • Priority changed from Normal to Low

Marking as “low” seeing Bug #16385#note-5.