Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery
by PhasmaFelis on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:50AM
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You're judging their methodology by what they chose not to do?
Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery
by RX14 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:42AM
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If they considered it for long enough to put in the article then its clear they are amateurs in electronics.
Re:Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery
by StavrosK on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:24AM
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I'm an amateur in electronics, and I would consider using a heat gun to desolder the BGA-looking chip (which basically means I know what a heat gun does and I know what BGA looks like). The article author's skill level is "I saw some electronics once".
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 board to see if we could pry the chip off with a screwdriver. We quickly decided this was a bad idea. We also considered “disabling” the chip by drilling a few holes through it with a Dremel tool or by melting it a bit with a soldering iron.
Jeezo.