What I Found Today» ridiculous http://whatifoundtoday.com Discoveries guaranteed to be more interesting than you Tue, 24 May 2011 14:32:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer Into A Bombhttp://whatifoundtoday.com/hackers-can-turn-your-home-computer-into-a-bomb http://whatifoundtoday.com/hackers-can-turn-your-home-computer-into-a-bomb#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:00:00 +0000 Jon Henshaw http://whatifoundtoday.com/?p=47 At first, I thought this could only be done by having a hacker sneak into my home, gut my computer and then fill it with explosives. However, Randy Jeffries of the Weekly World News set me straight. He interviewed computer expert Arnold Yabenson, president of the Washington-based consumer group National CyberCrime Prevention Foundation (NCPF), and this is what he had to say:

It is already possible for an assassin to send someone an email with an innocent-looking attachment connected to it. When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast apart like a large hand grenade.

Makes sense to me. Oh, and the NCPF doesn’t have a website yet, but I’m sure they’re working on it.

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