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Re: Destroying PCs remotely?
From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:15:55 -0700 (PDT)
Yo André! I have UPS on everything in my office. Got tired of replacing things monitors and disk drives every time the power bounced up and down a few times. Disk Drives are like Car Starters. They are only meant for intermittent duty. Last I checked, most HDs will kill the spin motor power transistors if you power them up and down 5 or 10 times in about 1 minute. You can certainly power up/down the HD with ACPI. Maybe the drive is smart enough not to exceed it's rated duty cycle. DPMS can turn the HV circui on and off a video monitor. Most PC QA deptartments power cycle all new PCs every 15 minutes for 24 hours. Scary to walk past the burn in racks and see all the dead PCs... So to summarize, to try to kill a PC we would try and or all of: power down the fans to cook the CPU overclock the CPU to cook it power cycle the monitor and HDs every 5 or 10 seconds to kill them. And of course any good hacker knows to wipe the disk clean to cover his tracks! RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem () rellim com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, André Luís Quintaes Guimarães wrote:
Hmm, since kid I always thought interesting the idea of using apm to repeatedly turn on and off monitors and hard drives until they burn. Off course nowadays it would be kinda hard to suceed.
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