Re: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?

From: gml (gml_at_phrick.net)
Date: 06/19/03

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    To: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>, André Luís Quintaes Guimarães <andreq@infolink.com.br>
    Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:27:51 -0400
    
    

    ok who volunteers to test this stuff out on their box?

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com>
    To: "André Luís Quintaes Guimarães" <andreq@infolink.com.br>
    Cc: <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:15 PM
    Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?

    > 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
    > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    > 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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