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Re: [Full-Disclosure] software burning cpu or mobo ?

From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@argo.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 07:11:17 EDT

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Georgi Guninski wrote:

> it is strange that mandrake damages some cdrom drives [1] and lm_sensors
> damages some thinkpads [2] without any intention of doing so.

AFAIK in both cases it is an accidental EEPROM/firware corruption rather
than real physical damage.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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