> killing your WiFi device on your device is not enough to deter exfiltration even by the least sophisticated attackers. It may deter the least sophisticated a

> killing your WiFi device on your device is not enough to deter exfiltration even by the least sophisticated attackers. It may deter the least sophisticated attackers, assuming they are reliant on networking and the only way it's connected to the network is via WiFi. If the least sophisticated hackers just go in physically and steal the PC, then you're correct, though. > possibly a key component of an elaborated real world attack Yes, in the sense of key as "required", but the key to Stuxnet was being spread by USB stick, iirc, which could be the same here. The infection would need to start via some sort of direct access, unless it got to it earlier when it was connected, if ever. Note that this use of an integrated circuit to transmit isn't that innovative either. Oliver Mattos and Oskar Weigl wrote something similar in 2012 called PiFm, though that was a different radio band: https://web.archive.org/web/20121215032057/http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter https://web.archive.org/web/20121215032057/http://www.icrobo...