# WiFi Hides Inside a USB Cable | Hackaday

<https://hackaday.com/2019/02/18/wifi-hides-inside-a-usb-cable/>

- Host: [hackaday.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/hackaday.com/)
- Saved: February 21, 2019 (2019-02-22T04:35:05Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/213dfbd83ec0/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/213dfbd83ec0.json

## What Jamie wrote

Holy crap! This is brilliant and frightening. It would be super easy to take over control of a computer by giving someone one of these cables. How do you defend against this? 🦹‍♀️

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT94: Weekly Thing #94 / Feb 23, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/94/), Notable Links 📌

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://hackaday.com/2019/02/18/wifi-hides-inside-a-usb-cable/