RE: Fwd: Re: Simple RF Weapon Can Fry PC Circuits

[Trei, Peter]

Making a car with electronic ignition stutter or stall 
is *old* *news* to folk in the Ham Radio field. If they
really had to get within 5 feet, their car killer is really,
really feeble. 

Peter Trei

> ----------
> From:         David Honig[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> At 10:04 PM 5/6/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
> 
> >At 07:05 PM 5/6/01, Steve Schear wrote:
> > >For a one-stop shopping site see http://www.rfterrorism.com
> >
> >One of the links towards the top of that page, "Demonstration of RF
> weapon
> >on a car.  Watch an electronic nervous breakdown occur. (1836 K)"
> 
> A car is a hardened target ---largely shielded, built to coexist with
> impulsive EMI from the ignition system, etc.  When they go to fiber optic
> busses instead of copper cables, they'll get more resistant (modulo the
> resistance of the i/f modules).
> 
> Something like a bunch of personal radios or a TV van would be more
> vulnerable.
> 
> And of course kompyuters..