Bug #10985

Make it clear that Network Connections persistence feature stores geo-location information

Added by intrigeri 2016-01-23 13:10:02 . Updated 2019-04-07 09:03:43 .

Status:
Confirmed
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Persistence
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Start date:
2016-01-23
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User interface design
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Description

E.g. apparently 802-11-wireless.seen-bssids is persisted. This can be a problem e.g. when connecting to Wi-Fi access points whose ESSID is widespread (e.g. ISPs Wi-Fi sharing programs for DSL subscribers). This can perhaps be addressed at the same time as Bug #10803.

However, the problem is more general, and exist to some degree even if we did not store BSSID:s: a list of Wi-Fi networks is already geo-location information. So I guess this should be made clear in the persistence configuration interface + doc.

This was originally reported on Bug #10803#note-6.

For the record this is still the case on sid with NM 1.12.2-2.

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Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #10803: Network Connections persistence feature stores MAC address of network interface Confirmed 2015-12-29

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-23 13:10:15

  • related to Bug #10803: Network Connections persistence feature stores MAC address of network interface added

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-23 13:11:03

  • Assignee set to intrigeri

I’ll ask our UX mailing-list help regarding how this should be presented in the persistent volume assistant.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2018-08-18 09:51:40

  • Description updated

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2019-04-07 09:03:43

  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)