For users that haven't read the documentation about the unsafe browser and/or just don't understand when it's necessary, it would be good if Tails does a reasonable job to try to detect whether a captive portal seems to be in place and notify the user if so. The approaches could range from simplistic to more sophisticated: * If `wait_for_tor_consensus()` fails during time syncing. Note that this would happen if Tails is booted on a LAN without Internet conneciton. * Use [ooni-probe](https://gitweb.torproject.org/ooni-probe.git)? * Other approaches. The method used likely has to be active, but it should preferably hook into some common, innocent looking network connection in order to avoid fingerprinting. Tools ===== Using WWW::Mechanize::Shell --------------------------- For each kind of hotspot: * list of possible ESSID * optional: allocated IP address classes * optional: network test script? * optional: SSL certificate fingerprint? * a WWW::Mechanize::Shell script Main script in in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. Test current connection against known hotspots. When connected to a known hotspot, starts WWW::Mechanize::Shell script. Values are entered through a callback than will uses Gtk2::Notify and some custom widgets. Known login/passwords should be put in gnome-keyring with a browser like completion system (enter first letters, pick login, password is prefilled). Maybe we could use the same login/password database as Epiphany. For hotspots that requires a periodic refresh, we can run another WWW::Mechanize::Shell script in a loop. NetworkManager is meanwhile monitored through DBUS to kill the loop if connection is lost. If loop fails try once more through default script before displaying a notification. Existing hotspot connection applications ---------------------------------------- Looks like there is at least two Python apps doing this already: * [autowifi](http://www.manatlan.com/page/autowifi) * [autologin-applet](http://antoine.mairesse.free.fr/autologin-applet/) Captive portal detection ------------------------ hellais and friends are working on [ooni-probe](https://gitweb.torproject.org/ooni-probe.git) which may be interesting, depeding on how stealthy the probe is. Beta testers ============ * San Bergmans <info@sbprojects.com>: FON network, KPN hotspots in the Netherlands

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