full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

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From: s2_pi_di_ty at hotmail.com (Donnie Weiner)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

>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...

Doesn't make sense :-\ Do you know what debug is? Also I didnt find any 
information like that relating to monkey*.


>From: "morning_wood" <se_cur_ity@...mail.com>
>To: André Luís Quintaes Guimarães <andreq@...olink.com.br>,   "Steve Wray" 
><steve.wray@...adise.net.nz>, <John.Airey@...b.org.uk>,   
><full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Destroying PCs remotely?
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:52:16 -0700
>
>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: "André Luís Quintaes Guimarães" <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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