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I would love to know how one goes about remotely "destroying a computer".

Maybe not destroy the computer but it is very easy to erradicate all the data or hose the BIOS. Very easy.

so... you know how to flash and fry a password protected bios chip?
interesting. I always thought that it was kinda hard without some kind of access to root privileges isn't it?

I have flashed a few bios chips in windows... but its hard to do remotely on a unix machine without root privileges... perhaps you could write a self executing program that would run at reboot, but... I never have to reboot the linux systems... except when I install a new kernel.

hatch is an idiot.
and if it was easy to do...
I have known some folks who would be doing it all the time... just for "fun".
imho... not so easy UNLESS all new BIOS are going to offer back door access via a government password, to bomb upon a issuance of a remote key signal.

Might as well be remote controlled and offered to all leos... who could use it to bomb all they suspect of any criminal activity... every body knows that computers MUST be registered... just like handguns, with the local technology cops.