Hacker News Reader

Let's say I disable or pull out all the network/wireless cards I have. Then what? Any ideas how to connect to the internet otherwise?

I am seriously thinking going Stallman because of this and not connecting to the internet at all, at least not from all the machines.

View on HN

If you don't mind a fairly slow connection, there's PLIP or SLIP. The latter is point-to-point only, though at 9600 baud it is indeed slow. If you're relying only on text-based transfers, these may be acceptable.

(I've run systems, at least for a time, relying on both.)

Otherwise, airgapping and read-only media might be an option, for transfers you need / want to perform.

rfc1149 is your last option.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

This is much closer to what I have in mind then what you can expect :)

Current draft involves two monitors, two cameras, and protocol crazy enough to confuse any firmware.

If you are serious, I would recommend using local firewall rules to modify your outgoing packets so that they are in some way non-standard, and then filtering all but the non-standard packets at your networks firewall.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com