p2k18 Hackathon report: Peter Hessler on wifi nwid switching

Peter Hessler (phessler@) writes about his time in Nantes:

I had arrived at Nantes with two goals, first was to port an app to watch baseball via mlb.tv, and second to clean up my work on BFD and hopefully enable it.

I'd sent out some ports for OKs, and was cleaning up some long-standing diffs for BFD when I overheard a conversation between Paul Irofti (pirofti@) and Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) about remembering which WiFi networks a machine has connected to. I mentioned I had 90% of that done, and only needed to finish the remaining 90%. After some discussion, I sent out my existing diff with the warning "it breaks WEP".

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