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Article #22413Re: Zap, Fry, and Sizzle
From: Bill Mayhew
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 19:40
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 19:40
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Many moons ago, I had a job at a certain 3-letter goverment agency. Somehow, I got assigned the job of giving tours to prospective new hires. One of my favorite labs to show off was the materials torture-testing lab. They had a neat display of the various ways electronic things could be abused, elxpoded, tortured, destoyed, etc. The idea was to see if army radios really could survice being dropped into a topical swamp or whatever. Also, it was useful to be able to blow things up when one was about to be over-run by the enemy army, lest the crytological gear fall into the wrong hands. Standard issue to embassies and outposts was an EPROM destructor -- the bottom business end of a waring blender with a stainless steel lid into which crucial EPROMs could be dropped. Cheap, but effective (one of the few government devices that was -- cheap and effective, that is). Bill -- Bill Mayhew Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Rootstonw, OH 44272-9995 USA 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu ....!uunet!aablue!neoucom!wtm
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cwjcc!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Zap, Fry, and Sizzle Keywords: NSA-appoved chip destructor Message-ID: <1990Feb25.194005.19027@uhura.neoucom.EDU> Date: 25 Feb 90 19:40:05 GMT Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 21