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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think we need a little more detail on the threat model here.

The person running a Wi-Fi network can monitor your traffic, regardless
of whether it is open, WEP, WPA, or anything else. Right?

If so, the only difference here between network types is whether someone
*other* than the person running the network can snoop on your traffic.
They can if it's open, if it's WEP, if it's WPA-TKIP, if it's WPA with
WPS, or if it's WPA with MS-CHAPv2. Correct?

It may make sense to design the fix for bug 1258496 at the same time as
this bug.

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Title:
  should prompt the user when connecting to an insecure network

Status in Network Menu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  To protect the user, we should inform the user that he is trying to
  connect to a potentially insecure network (Open, WEP, WPA).

  [Young Pirate hacker gets top security secrets]
  http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17828

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