[OJFord]

> "software doesn't damage hardware" [not parent's claim]

Isn't this trivially false?

Of course we can design hardware (+ firmware) that allows software to damage or irrevocably destroy it.

So even if we're not willing to accept that alone, it surely follows that some hardware (+ firmware) will (accidentally) be physically vulnerable to malicious software?

[woliveirajr]

I think so. The point was that you couldn't make a hardware go beyond its limits (video cards, monitors, HDD, keyboards, CD-ROMs)... then I lost my patience and stopped arguing. Funny that at those times, "hardware guide" books were a thing, and one of my opponents was one big writer in my country. Never heard of him anymore, by the way.