Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:36:00 -0300 From: =?utf-8?Q?Lucas_Nali_de_Magalh=C3=A3es?= <rollingbits@gmail.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: disable wlan/wifi Message-ID: <56E4124B-B1EE-406C-B6E2-3EDD097483E7@gmail.com>
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Hi. I started a bug report to request a way to disable wlan/wifi but I think I'm= better writing here first: my inability to disable wlan/wifi is becoming a s= ecurity issue for me here (I'm still learning how to use the Bugzilla web in= terface). Long story short: wifi never goes away. Please help. I disable the services I don't use since ages. Never stopped to think about w= ifi use until I needed it recently, though. So I thought that if I don't con= figure it stays out of use (waiting for a configuration). But I found that i= t's always used if it was found, and the drive loads a default configuration= if not said otherwise. Both the default configuration (that is wrong for my= side of the planet) and the default on option is an issue for me. The defau= lt on is an issue because it created an interface that went unobserved until= it was needed. When the wifi drive is loaded it loads the wlan stack and configures the har= dware. And because I'm not on USA the default configuration is not right for= me. More than that, the drive is both a little unstable and a little limite= d. My keyboard has a key combination to disable wifi but the drive (urtw on = FreeBSD 12) don't have an option to be disabled. That said, I expect to not c= reate a storm when I do my request. I think this is a security issue because= this enables exploits of the wireless/network stacks without administrator i= ntervention. All this been said, I still need to say that I'm about to move and this comp= uter will probably stay off for a long time after that. Lc --=20 rollingbits =E2=80=94 =F0=9F=93=A7 rollingbits@gmail.com =F0=9F=93=A7 rollin= gbits@terra.com.br =F0=9F=93=A7 rollingbits@yahoo.com =F0=9F=93=A7 rollingbi= ts@globo.com =F0=9F=93=A7 rollingbits@icloud.com=
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