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A Macbook Air, which is pretty much designed as a wifi-dependent network terminal, would be way down my list of hardware I would choose if I had to build an airgap lab environment.
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No it's not, it just seems that way to the vast majority of us who haven't developed the proper intuition.
Of course, there is the GA evolved antenna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna
This story made me realize: I haven't seen the phrase "tin-foil hat" used much in the past couple of years. Huh. Which reminded me of a quote: "For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one. But alas the reality was the mediocrity." — Le Carre
The NSA can see through tin now. You must upgrade to superconducting hats.
If the author of the article is here - I'd suggest turning to Louis Rossmann of YouTube fame:
https://www.rossmanngroup.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
He has the equipment and skill to repair a logic board, and may have some valuable insights about failure modes of common chips on MacBooks.
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…something that didn't look too much like an antenna… The Raspberry Pi Zero W has a perfectly serviceable antenna which is simply a cavity formed between layers of copper and two tiny capacitors which look about like grains of salt. You can read more at https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-zero-w-wireless-antenna... They are designed by some very clever Swedes. http://www.proant.se/en/news.htm That second page shows…
Antenna design is total black magic. Intuition is useless here.
Coming up with new fundamental antenna designs feels a bit black magicky to us lowly electronics people, but that's just because it's more applied physics than engineering. Here's an example of how new antenna pattern design is done: http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This story made me realize: I haven't seen the phrase "tin-foil hat" used much in the past couple of years. Huh. Which reminded me of a quote: "For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one. But alas the reality was the mediocrity." — Le Carre
The NSA can see through tin now. You must upgrade to superconducting hats.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stewart-butterfield-epic-resi...
This story made me realize: I haven't seen the phrase "tin-foil hat" used much in the past couple of years. Huh. Which reminded me of a quote: "For a while you wondered whether the fools were pretending to be fools as some kind of deception, or whether there was a real efficient service somewhere else. Later in my fiction, I invented one. But alas the reality was the mediocrity." — Le Carre
Here is a link: https://www.apple-schematic.se/
Edit: And to look at the PCB files I recommend https://openboardview.org/
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> This article isn’t about proving that though Um the article kinda is: ... so we deemed this information reliable and immediately raised some critical questions: Is there a wireless chipset soldered onto the MacBook Air’s logic board that we didn’t know about? If so, is it not actually possible to properly air gap a MacBook Air? And their methodology is a bit flawed. This made me shudder: We took out the Air’s logic…
You're judging their methodology by what they chose not to do?
If you really need an air gapped computer, wouldn't it make a whole lot more sense to build a desktop with some variety of ATX form factor motherboard that you can examine in detail to confirm that it has zero wireless functionality? A Macbook Air, which is pretty much designed as a wifi-dependent network terminal, would be way down my list of hardware I would choose if I had to build an airgap lab environment.