[Arm-netbook] Removing wifi

[Tom Cubie]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:05 AM,  <freebirds at hushmail.com> wrote:
> A member speculated that I need to remove wifi because I work for the
> government. I just posted what I do need. I should explain that I am a
> domestic violence victim. My abuser hired investigators. The investigators
> hired hackers. My abuser's hackers broke into my storage unit, car and room
> where I had my netbooks. They replaced the hard drive from two of my
> netbooks. The replaced hard drives had a customized version of Fedora and a
> hidden partition. They infected my BIOS and graphic card with a rootkit (not
> the Mebromi) which worked with the rootkit in the HPA/DCO of my hard drives.
> Reflashing the BIOS and erasing my HD with DBAN and KillDisk did not
> eradicate the rootkits.This article explains why
> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=234112&page=2. Hence, I need
> to switch to a PC that neither has a BIOS nor a HPA/DCO in the hard drive.
>
> My abuser's hackers also hacked into my local LAN to out of band connect to
> Intel's AMT in my Asus 1015PX and AMD DASH in my MSI netbook to remotely
> completely control my netbooks and procure my data. Hence, I need to switch
> to ARMS or MIPS. As of yet, they do not sleuthly offer out of band
> monitoring to "IT administrators."
>
> I considered the Freedombox (DreamPlug). It's processor serial number (PSN)
> is not burned into OTP memory so it is not visible online. However,
> Freedombox's soldered wifi and bluetooth are soldered into the motherboard.
> Bluetooth has a MAC address which is visible by default. The geolocation of
> the MAC address of the bluetooth card and wifi card can be tracked. Even
> when offline, hackers can hack into bluetooth.
>
> Few end users know to make their bluetooth hidden or off. Yet, "hidden"
> bluetooth have been hacked. "Bluesniff provides a GUI for finding
> discoverable and hidden bluetooth devices. See the DefCon 11 presentation on
> Bluetooth wardriving for more info." http://www.shmoo.com/projects.html
>
> "Each Bluetooth-enabled device has a unique Bluetooth ID that none of other
> devices has. The Bluetooth scanner scans for Bluetooth-enabled devices
> around you and stores discovered device IDs, name and time when it was
> discovered in your smartphone storage. Usually your phone can discover
> devices in short range, approximately 10m. Than Bluetooth scanner requests
> your phone position using GPS module and associates this position with
> recently discovered Bluetooth devices. Now you can submit the collected
> location data to our server and immediately get more location data for a
> specific device submitted by other users. Finally you will see on a map
> where and when you as well as other people have seen the device in the
> past."
> http://geotooth.com/Home/HowItWorks
>
> Bluetooth Tracking without Discoverability
> www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/publications/public/.../55610120.pdf
>
> Turning bluetooth and wifi off in software is not a solution. Configuring
> MacChanger to change the MAC address of wifi after boot up is not a
> solution. Their MAC addresses become visible while the computer is booting
> up and shutting down.
>
> I am considering the CuBox but it has infrared and ARM TrustZone. Infrared
> has been hacked. AllWinner A10 would need most of my needs if I could remove
> the wifi.
i can help you, i think. I have one A10 laptop on my desktop, opened,
The wifi module is really easy to remove. No soldering is needed, just
plug the connector.
>
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