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Message-ID: <3EF21B4C.2000803@guninski.com>
From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Destroying PCs is for kids.
This senator should be concerned if malware damages human beings - AFAIK "short" 
ads are illegal.

georgi

John.Airey@...b.org.uk wrote:
> "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.
> 
> More details at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2999780.stm
> 
> What was that? It was the US constitution saying bye-bye...
> 
> - 
> John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE
> Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the
> Blind,
> Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
> Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey@...b.org.uk 
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