Re: [patch 2/9] 2.5.6 lm_sensors

[Marcin Dalecki]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

And it would be after all a bit hard to get an exponential propagation
curve, becouse the incubator is killing himself in this case :-).