Article 46N60 Underclocking a baseband chip creates a stealth wifi channel

Underclocking a baseband chip creates a stealth wifi channel

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Cory Doctorow
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CNLohr discovered that underclocking the ESP8266 wifi module's Baseband PLL made the wifi channel progressively narrower, until it could not longer be detected by an unmodified wifi receiver -- but a similarly modified wifi module can detect the narrow signal, creating a s00p3r s33kr1t wifi channel; here's sourcecode (which may violate FCC Part 15 rules, so please use responsibly). (via Four Short Links)

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