RE: Destroying PCs remotely?

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

Just goes to show you that when politicians spend all their time in the
seat of government they lose all contact with reality.  I wonder if
anyone would like to blow up Orrin Hatch's computer?

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Airey () rnib org uk [mailto:John.Airey () rnib org uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 AM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?
>
>
> "Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican representing Utah, asked 
> technology chiefs about whether they could develop ways to 
> damage or destroy the computers hearing in Washington on Tuesday"
>
> Whilst this seems a little off-topic, having the US 
> government blowing up your PC (without "due process" by the 
> looks of it) makes other security holes pale into insignificance.
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