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:[email protected]] > Sent: January-10-17 9:19 AM > To: [email protected] > 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>
