full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Schmehl, Paul L)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Just goes to show you that when politicians spend all their time in the
seat of government they lose all contact with reality.  I wonder if
anyone would like to blow up Orrin Hatch's computer?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Airey@...b.org.uk [mailto:John.Airey@...b.org.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:20 AM
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?
> 
> 
> "Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican representing Utah, asked 
> technology chiefs about whether they could develop ways to 
> damage or destroy the computers hearing in Washington on Tuesday"
> 
> Whilst this seems a little off-topic, having the US 
> government blowing up your PC (without "due process" by the 
> looks of it) makes other security holes pale into insignificance.