Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off
Do you have rfkill? Pi3b has bluetooth too. This is fairly handy for
turning them on and off interactively. Or you can set up config
files.
pi1# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
On 1/10/17, Jim MacKenzie <jim@photojim.ca> wrote:
> If you don't have an access point configured on your WiFi radio, your radio
> will listen only, and never reply, hence there is no vulnerability.
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gheskett@shentel.net]
> Sent: January-10-17 9:19 AM
> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
> Subject: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off
>
> Greetings all;
>
> How do I turn the radio off, completely off, in a pi 3b? I have no use for
> it to be on, inviting a "drive by" attack or wasting cpu cycles.
>
> An iw wlan0 scan finds as many as a dozen signals, one quite a bit stronger
> than the others call's its SSID: "Fbi surveillance van." I even catch the
> next door neighbors hp printer.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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