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Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off



On Tuesday 10 January 2017 10:25:09 Jim MacKenzie 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

Thats no doubt true, but when the neighbor is printing a long job, thats 
a lot of traffic to ignore, so I'd much druther have it powered down and 
generating zero interrupts.
>
> -----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
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>


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