Spectra like bluetooth hack, even without drivers installed?

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Maybe not Qubes specific, but Qubes users would be specifically interested.

Qubes ships without bluetooth drivers. This is good.

Librem 14 Bluetooth device invisible to dom0 and sys-usb

Greetings, I am using a Librem 14 with Qubes and am unable to get dom0, sys-usb (or any Qube for that matter) to successfully detect my built in Bluetooth device when it is activated via kill switch. The bluetooth device is activated using the same switch as the camera, and when I flip the switch the camera device appears in my device list on my desktop UI as well as in sys-usb when I run “lsusb” from the terminal, however no Bluetooth device appears in either of these lists. Does anyone know…

Wireless Bluetooth Support?

I’ve reviewed the the documentation and searched the forums and reddit extensively but I’ve yet to find out how or if qubes can support a wireless mouse and keyboard via bluetooth. I’m aware that it may have security implications. Is it possible through usb-qube with networking enabled? If so, does anyone mind pointing me in the right direction?

Most Wifi/BT cards come as a coexistent package. This brings a security risk. See Spectra.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/researchers-uncover-new-coexistence.html

Question

Can an attack like spectra be leveraged against a system without BT drivers installed? Some theoretical attack that can push malicious content via bluetooth or exfiltrate data (say, wifi credentials), even if the bluetooth is defanged by Qubes and its lack of drivers?

Has anyone had success with hardware hacking their laptops wireless card to permanently break bluetooth? I’ve had successes with permanently disabling antennas on phones via physical modding.

Is something similar worth considering with my laptop wireless card?