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How can I make wpa_supplicant not connect to expressly disabled open networks when no configured network is available? (How can I make it not connect to anything whatsoever?)

This happens when my card fails to find my home network. In this case, wpa_supplicant connects to any other available network, even disabled networks.

For example, my neighbour has an open network (SSID: xfinitywifi) with a strong signal. This network is expressly disabled in my wpa_supplicant.conf: (See this question also by me.) 

network={
  ssid="xfinitywifi"
  key_mgmt=NONE
  disabled=1
  priority=0
}

This works most of the time. However, if my card happens not to find my home network, wpa_supplicant then just ignores disabled=1 above, and connects to xfinitywifi.

This can be shown from wpa_cli output (reformatted):

> disconnect
OK
> list_networks
0   neighbour1           any        [DISABLED]
1   xfinitywifi          any        [DISABLED]
2   neighbour2           any
---CUT---
12  neighbour12          any
13  any                             [CURRENT]
>
> reconnect
OK
<3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
<3>WPS-AP-AVAILABLE 
<3>SME: Trying to authenticate with 06:1d:d3:4c:37:00 (SSID='xfinitywifi' freq=2447 MHz)
<3>Trying to associate with 06:1d:d3:4c:37:00 (SSID='xfinitywifi' freq=2447 MHz)
<3>Associated with 06:1d:d3:4c:37:00 
<3>CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 06:1d:d3:4c:37:00 completed (reauth) [id=13 id_str=]

Notice that #13 (any) is the current network ([CURRENT]), which turns out to be #1, xfinitywifi, a disabled network ([DISABLED]).

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Disable the default network configuration in wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
        key_mgmt=NONE
        disabled=1
}
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