full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

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From: se_cur_ity at hotmail.com (morning_wood)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

im sure a "trojan" heaven forrbid i said a bad word, has the ability
to set resolutions remotely, overdriving the monitor.
If i recall " Monkey-B" could destroy a mfm drive by smashing the
heads to thier physical stops repeadly, it wasa debug command i
belive.  i could be wrong of course...

wood
http://exploitlabs.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andr? Lu?s Quintaes Guimar?es" <andreq@...olink.com.br>
To: "Steve Wray" <steve.wray@...adise.net.nz>;
<John.Airey@...b.org.uk>; <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?


> 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.
> I dont have much knoledge of the apm workings,any one knows if that
would be
> possible?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Wray" <steve.wray@...adise.net.nz>
> To: <John.Airey@...b.org.uk>; <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 5:18 PM
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?
>
>
> > Interesting topic though, is it possible to
> > *destroy* computers remotely at all?
> > Destroy the hardware, that is.
> >
> > 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...
> > :)
>
>
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