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by cowpatcallr 3239 days ago
A friend showed me that one of those NCIS crime shows already did this.

https://www.themarysue.com/malware-uploaded-from-bone-bones/

Malware is 3d printed on to a bone they scan in or something.

Reality imitating art I guess.

What a world we live in.

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Or the Season 3 primer of Rick and Morty where Rick invents a fictional backstory with the secret the federation was looking for replaced with exploit code.
> we see a character’s computer burst into flames

If we can just get malware that can prompt a personal computer to burst into flames.

With thermal throttling, simply stopping the fans and running processors at 100% may not be enough to HCF anymore.
The infamous old video from Tom's Hardware Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxNUK3U73SI "What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?"
You could hop from the PC to something like a PLC and sabotage an industrial process (like stuxnet)