wlan

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Yeah, I have this preconceived notion that I can plug in my usb wlan stick and have it work.

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Initialism of wireless local area network.

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noun

Initialism of wireless local area network.

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noun

Initialism of wireless local area network.

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Yeah, I have this preconceived notion that I can plug in my usb wlan stick and have it work.

I have two wlan USB sticks that work out of the box on Ubuntu and Debian (I wasn't even careful about that when buying them).

I actually started down the path of getting making cron restart the wlan interface every 24 hours but I ran into some issues and gave up on it.

I'm not sure it's more sane to trust a typical pc to not have a hw backdoor (eg: intel managment cpu with wlan access -- does need to be enabled in bios.

Anecdote here: I recently bought a x200 and installed libreboot, I decided to go full on tin hat and removed the wlan modem and replaced the wifi card with one with no DMA access.

Free, distributed (mesh-net) solutions will only help there, if they can somehow get around the jamming (relatively easy if only cell phone networks are jammed, not sure how likely it is that bluetooth/wlan will/can be jammed as well).

Because surely it'd be easier to have big battery+wlan/miracast/bluetooth/cpu stuffed in your pocket, and a small display+touch+bluetooth device on your wrist, with the option to pull out a phablet-sized hi-res touch-screen with it's own battery, but only miracast+bluetooth (maybe a gpu)?

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Link that with a "one-way" cable to a rpi2 (the "compromised"/networked node), and a cheap android tablet w/o baseband/gsm chips -- and perhaps solder off the antennas/kill the wlan/bluetooth.