Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 11:46, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Someone should write windows virus killing thinkpads -- to get some
> nice publicity for IBM. Hardware that commits suicide on i2c access is
> just not nice.
> 
> Hmm, perhaps bugtraq article with "severe DoS on thinkpad hardware"
> would be nice, too.

Given an afternoon someone competent can easily write a worm that
destroys every scsi hard disk, almost every PC bios, your IDE firmware,
some laptop batteries some USB devices and far more.

The "you cant break the computer" thing is simply not true for almost
any PC class device. 

I wouldn't pick on IBM here.