ok who volunteers to test this stuff out on their box? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary E. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andr� Lu�s Quintaes Guimar�es" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?
> Yo Andr�! > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Andr� Lu�s Quintaes Guimar�es 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. > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
