On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:04:46 AM MST Louis Lagendijk wrote: > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:14 -0400, Robert Marcano wrote: > > > On 8/27/19 10:03 AM, John Harris wrote: > > > > > > > > > Any new Wifi connection could be identified by their SSID, so it > > could > > still be secure by default and ask for that specific connection to > > be > > opened because you trust them. As I proposed on another email, bring > > back the NetworkManager zones UI to GNOME Settings, simplified with > > being an option to confine that connection to the public zone. > > > > Yeah, the WIFI case can be as simple as that: let the use choose the > default zone. Public means closed firewall, otherwise the workstation > zone can be as it is now. This protects the user from big mistakes as > unintended sharing of information over samba, media players et. > > > The problem of identifying wired connections still remains and needs > > more thinking. > > For this case NetworkManager could verify the gateway address/ MAC to > see if this is a known network, and if not offer the user to allocate > that connection to a public/private zone? I seem to remember that > Windows does something similar (sorry not a big Windows user)... > /louis > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List > Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List > Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I'd argue that the workstation zone shouldn't exist at all, at least not as it is now, but even that would be a significant improvement. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
