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Re:The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong by Amadou on Saturday November 02, 2013 @08:25AM (#6658983)
But it's spewing packets out on an interface that it doesn't actually need to communicate. I mean...really?

Because bridging an air-gap firewall is the holy grail of network penetration. You can't discover the guy on the other side of the air-gap without "spewing" announcement packets.

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Re:The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong by lawnchair_larry on Sunday November 03, 2013 @05:05PM (#6665337)
Yes you can. By spewing them on the audio interface, which wireshark doesn't monitor and decode into packets, instead of onto a network interface, which is easily monitored. Especially when there is no reason to involve the network interface at all.
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