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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My first instinct is just to use "{network name} ({encryption type})"
whenever there's more than one network with the same name.

I wonder if we can do anything here to protect against social
engineering attacks. I could camp outside a company office and set up a
network with the same name but different encryption method. A device
connecting automatically to the previous network would be safe. But a
new employee, told to connect to "Yoyodyne" and confronted with a choice
between "Yoyodyne (WPA2)" and "Yoyodyne (LEAP)", could easily try the
wrong one -- and now I've captured the password to the company's real
network. Has this problem been dealt with before?

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Title:
  show wireless encryption type

Status in Network Menu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently the indicator only shows whether or not a wireless network
  is secured, by showing a padlock.

  In a situation where we have two accesspoints which both have the same
  ESSID (name) but different encryption (e.g. WEP vs. WPA) they provide
  two separate networks. Now the indicator shows two identical items and
  the user has no way of figuring out which is which.

  Above scenario is a very rare one, but still completely valid.
  Neither nm-applet or macosx networking menu bother to deal with this situation, they just show two identical networks, but Android is always showing the encryption scheme beneath the network name.

  We can either
  A) do nothing
  B) always have the encryption type visible somehow
  C) be smart about it and only show the encryption type when we detect that the name and padlock is not enough

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