full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0306181433430.27575@catbert.rellim.com>
From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Yo Steve!

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Steve Wray wrote:

> In the case of a rack *full* of Dell servers,
> I imagine that turning all the fans on full
> power would generate enough thrust to push
> the whole thing across the machine room floor...

Right idea, wrong polarity.  Turn off all the fans and melt them down.
ACPI makes that easy.  I got several CPUs here melted from fan failure.

RGDS
GARY
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