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fulldecent2 on Dec 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transmits AM radio on computers without radio tran...

Excellent! Have you been able to transmit anything at all without connecting a wire over the outputs?

Or are there are popular configurations where people have something plugged in and then unwitting be open to an exfiltration attack?

erjiang on Dec 17, 2020 [–]

Range without an antenna is around 10-20cm. I was able to hold my RPi next to my ceiling fan and control it, but obviously that’s not very practical.

Theoretically you could exfiltrate data with it, but if you have root access to the RPi already then I don’t see why you wouldn’t just use Wi-Fi.

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