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?
If you're using an old PC with a pre-installed OS, and then just removed the network drivers, it wouldn't count as air gapping as many others have already told you. You would need to wipe the whole computer off, reinstall a new OS, and from there delete the network drivers to completely air-gap it.While I personally believe in the benefits of air-gapping, I don't think it's that much needed especially if you're careful enough with what you're doing. A bit of an overkill too cause that's a whole pc setup that you're not using for anything besides saving your cryptocurrencies which isn't really something that is cost-effective especially for newbies who are trying bitcoin out for the first time.