begin  quoting Nicholas Wheeler as of Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:39:14PM -0400:
> Assuming Microsoft has hidden code in their operating system that enables
> them to disable all M$ computers at any point in time .... that's another
> way ;-)

Erm.... why hidden?

> Or cisco's routers, for that case.
>
> Theoretically either of those two companies can take the internet "hostage".

Why would the first one be bad, again?

That's a pipe-dream. *PLEASE* make it come true. I'm not convinced that
disabling all M$ machines is a bad thing.

Oh, for that matter, Intel and AMD could embed opcodes that could
disabled a machine. Wait, Intel already did that.

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