On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ever heard of caltrops? I hear it's a new growth cottage industry.
Likewise the cheap EMP devices just talked about here. I've been thinking of
There are no cheap EMP devices. You'll need a high voltage capacitor bank
at the very least (I would not like carry some Joules worth of it on my
person), or even a flux compressor. I don't think you'd want to detonate
some 5 kg of HE just to fry some electronics in some 10 m radius.
Someone attempting to disable computers in a concentrated place, e.g., a specific Wall Street or City bank, might.
This was a threat model considered by Winn Schwartau some years ago.
But I would figure a "soft" attack, exploiting security holes, would be better for various reasons than a "hard" attack.
--Tim May
