New virus vector - (for amusement value only)

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e27_1327440153&t=1

OK, yes, I know that we all use Turing architecture, and therefore there is no 
inherent difference between code and data.

And I'm even willing to believe that somebody building a one-off specialty 
program would be a bit careless about buffer overflows and such.

And, yes, we used to fool around programming using only printable characters and 
other weird restrictions on the code.

But I still say that using fractal pattterns would be a particularly inefficient way to 
store arbitrary code.

And you'd probably have to know this one-off specialty system better than the 
original programmer, designer, and hardware architect to do the damage that way.

(And nobody mentioned how you over-revved the CPU to get it to overheat ...)

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