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echo: virus_info
to: KURT WISMER
from: DAVID AMES
date: 1997-01-26 14:56:00
subject: VIRUS DESTROY HARDWA

KW> whats stopping the virus writer is the concept of practical
KW> realities...
KW> the virus writer would have to spend a great deal of time
KW> researching
KW> each and every possible combination of events to find this
KW> theoretically
KW> possible weakness that is not yet known to exist...
KW>
KW> even if each of his tests only took a few seconds the whole
KW> test set
KW> would take longer than any man has ever lived...
I never said that it would be easy, just possable.
KW> in five years time a virus that destroys todays hardware will
KW> be of
KW> little concern, just as trojans that destroy some types of
KW> monitors made
KW> in the early 80's are of little concern now... it will take
Take a walk throgh some high-rise office buildings and you will see an array
of old and new computers/terminals.
Therefor it is still ralavent, and my original point still remains, that it 
is possable to distroy a peice of hardware through software.
--- FMail 0.94
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