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Message-ID: <20030619115326.GA4518@northernsecurity.net>
From: thomas at northernsecurity.net (Thomas Sjögren)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Steve Wray wrote:

> Interesting topic though, is it possible to
> *destroy* computers remotely at all?

<delurk>
Old, but interesting stuff:

http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~valeri/EMP.html
"[T]he bomb was stored in a briefcase and emitted short, high-energy pulses
reaching 10 gigawatts, which could destroy complex electronics
systems."

Nilsson N R   H?gberg Lars   Svedberg A   Hipple J  
Pulse generator for short megavolt pulses with a risetime in the
nanosecond region.  1970
(Physica Scripta, vol 1, 1970, pp 193-196) (FOA reprints 1970/71:33)

Dahlen G?ran   Daxberg K   H?glund Lennart   Sj?holm Bo   Wik Manuel  
A survey of Swedish nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) research.
Intern. symp.  
New York, NY, June 20-22, 1973
New York, IEEE 1973
(IEEE Electromagnetic compatibility symposium 73, pp 12-18)

Karlsson Torbj?rn  
Protective measures against electromagnetic pulse sabotage.     
G?teborg, aug 12-14, 1986
1986
(Security technology. Int. Carnahan conf.) 

/Thomas
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