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Hi!

> > Someone should write windows virus killing thinkpads -- to get some
> > nice publicity for IBM. Hardware that commits suicide on i2c access is
> > just not nice.
> > 
> > Hmm, perhaps bugtraq article with "severe DoS on thinkpad hardware"
> > would be nice, too.
> 
> Given an afternoon someone competent can easily write a worm that
> destroys every scsi hard disk, almost every PC bios, your IDE firmware,
> some laptop batteries some USB devices and far more.

Every scsi harddisk? I do not think *all* of them have upgradable
firmware.

Every PC bios? I believe many manufacturers are clever enough to
require jumper.

If hardware is so crappy it is possible to kill it ... well ... I
believe it is at least bugtraq topic.

> The "you cant break the computer" thing is simply not true for almost
> any PC class device. 
> 
> I wouldn't pick on IBM here.

They were the first where breaking hardware by software is so easy
that it happens by accident. That's looks like good enough reason to
pick on them.
								Pavel
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