man interfaces, change /etc/network/interfaces ifdown wlan0 should bring it down in the short term
On 1/10/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > 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:ghesk...@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> > > -- Credit is the root of all evil. - AB1JX