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From: kmd@sdcsmb.UUCP (Karen M. Davis)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 11:47:38 EDT
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> ... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up ...

Um.... many computers built for military applications contain a "trap door"
that can be reached by an assembly sequence that will direct the transformer
or power supply *input* onto the motherboard.  Manufacturers of this type of
computer include HP and Litton.  This "feature" is supposed to be used to
destroy your computer as the installation is being overrun by the enemy.
Since most of these suckers use large DC generators as input to the
transformers/power supplies, you can imagine the fireworks that occur when
this stuff reaches all those cute little ICs. ;-)

It was supposed to leave the attackers with molten sludge.

karen
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