Of course one of the most important things to understand as a newbie in the crypto space is how to secure your digital assets. Therefore I decided to give air gapping a try In other to understand air gapping I tried air gapping an old windows PC today since I didn't know a lot of technical stuff about the internal components of the computer I decided to uninstall all network drivers on the computer I tried doing this from my windows control panel.
Will this still count as an air gapped device or do I still have to remove the hard ware networking components from the PC board?
And will it be possible for an hacker to install those drivers remotely?
That could count as an air-gapped device if your aim is to disable anything that makes it possible to communicate wirelessly especially with the internet, but you can't be sure what is going on behind your back though since the hardware and software are trade secret and closed source. However it's better than openening it up to the world yourself. If somehow it gets hacked after a thorough airgapping you could narrow things down to the manufacturer and software makers. But I doubt they would go that route if they know you are knowledgeable in stuff like that as it would expose what their device and software are capable of doing secretly after thoroughly airgapping it.