Comments on: Etherkiller

Etherkiller

cbrody — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:30:04 -0800

How to make friends with your IT department

By: The Jesse Helms

The Jesse Helms — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:59:59 -0800

Sick. In the best way.

By: ori

ori — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:23:57 -0800

They should build one with a rotating head that cycles through various plug architectures.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:32:26 -0800

Do they make international adapter kits for business travellers?

By: Mr. Gunn

Mr. Gunn — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:13:42 -0800

amazing it's not /.ed yet

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:31:08 -0800

Before CAT5, when Ethernet was all coax and BNC connectors, naughty users would disrupt huge loops of networks by muckin' with the cable on the back of their computer. ("I wanted to move my PC to the *other* side of my desk... again.") We took to posting signs reading "High Voltage" around Ethernet hubs, and in the immediate proximity of repeat offenders. We made a big show of handling Ethernet cable with heavy electrical gloves. We bought cable "boots" and superglued them to the BNC connectors. Nothin'. And then one day, quite by accident, we found a network interface card that was ever-so-slightly crossed with the power supply of whichever computer you put it in... and it packed a wallop. From that point on, whenever we had a network offender, we dropped ol' "Sparky" in the perp's PC. We *never* had a repeat offense.

By: gd779

gd779 — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:29:52 -0800

deCadmus is a real life BOFH. I'm indescribably jealous.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:02:00 -0800

Mr. Gunn, it was. But it's older than that. The end of the article suggests it hasn't been updated since 02.

By: vagus

vagus — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:13:48 -0800

THAT IS AWESOME. *DOES MAD AIRGUITAR*

By: keswick

keswick — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:54:03 -0800

This thread simultaneously renews my faith in geeks, MeFi, and humanity.

By: cpchester

cpchester — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:19:10 -0800

nerd herd.

By: eateneye

eateneye — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:22:35 -0800

I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Is this guy basically showing us a bunch of things that will screw up electronics?

By: Dean Keaton

Dean Keaton — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:35:57 -0800

Im popping in here to say that link is old as hell.

By: mitocan

mitocan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:57:23 -0800

Aaah! This is what they call "killer applications".

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:22:59 -0800

2002 called. It wants its... never mind.

By: eriko

eriko — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:54:16 -0800

Amateurs. Real etherkillers use the flyback transformer from an old monitor. For coax, you get get a nice 2.4GHZ microwave transmitter and run 1800W down the cable. deCadmus: That's brilliant. I just ended up mixing ink with vaseline and smearing it on a couple of BNC Ts that people insisted on playing with. Would have loved to have Ol Sparky about. Gawd, 10-Base-2 was such a hack. At least with 10-Base-5, it was harder to drop the whole segment.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:57:05 -0800

2002 called. It wants its... never mind. ... ceaseless anthropomorphization to end?

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:09:00 -0800

Yes!

By: keswick

keswick — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:48:41 -0800

Ceaseless anthropomorphization called....

By: absalom

absalom — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:01:20 -0800

Why in God's name would you show this stuff to the person you buy equipment from?

By: chibikeandy

chibikeandy — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:15:57 -0800

2002 called. It wants its haphazard html layout back.