--- Marcelo Puhl <mark@plug-in
..com.br> wrote:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/990910-000015.html
>
>
> Posted 10/09/99 12:12pm by Lucy Sherriff
>
> Build your own Klingon disruptor
>
> Fancy building your own Klingon Disruptor? An ex-US
> Navy engineer has
> done just that for the bargain price of $500. The
> gadget fiend has built a 'gun',
> using readily available hardware, that can disable
> almost any piece of
> electronic equipment from 20 feet away.
>
> It consists of a parabolic reflector, a horn antenna
> and two ignition coils and
> is powered by a car battery. When the inventor,
> David Schriner demonstrated
> his new toy at the Infowar 99 conference in
> Washington DC, it disrupted the
> PA system and two nearby PCs, which needed to be
> reset even after the
> 'gun' was switched off.
>
> The principle it exploits dates back to Tesla. In
> essence, the gun shoves a
> 20 megawatt burst of radio noise through the
> antenna, which then interferes
> with nearby electrical equipment, according to US
> newswire reports.
>
> Schriner said that the demonstrated was intended as
> a wake up call to the
> electronics industry. He said he wanted to show that
> even low budget
> saboteurs could inflict serious damage. He claims to
> have built another
> machine capable of crashing computers, and cars from
> a distance of 100
> feet. That one cost him less than $300.
>
> Permanent damage is rare, Schriner says, but that is
> not the point. The
> computers at the conference worked after re-booting.
> "But if that happens to
> be a computer in a tank, or in a piece of medical
> equipment, how long does
> it take to reboot?" he asks.
>
> "By that time you could be dead." ®
>
>
> Marcelo Puhl
> mark@plug-in.com.br
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