[MLB-WIRELESS] [iwar] EMP weapon - hand held (sort of) (fwd)

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One of these would make a melbwireless meeting intersting :-)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:02:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cohen <fc at all.net>
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To: Information Warfare Mailing List <iwar at onelist.com>
Subject: [iwar] EMP weapon - hand held (sort of)

Build your own Klingon disruptor
By: 
Posted: 10/09/1999 at 11:12 GMT

Fancy building your own Klingon Disruptor? An ex-US Navy engineer
has done just that for the bargain price of $500. The gadget fiend
has built a 'gun', using readily available hardware that can disable
almost any piece of electronic equipment from 20 feet away. 

It consists of a parabolic reflector, a horn antenna and two ignition
coils and is powered by a car battery. When the inventor, David
Schriner demonstrated his new toy at the Infowar 99 conference in
Washington DC, it disrupted the PA system and two nearby PCs,
which needed to be reset even after the 'gun' was switched off. 

The principle it exploits dates back to Tesla. In essence, the gun
shoves a 20 megawatt burst of radio noise through the antenna,
which then interferes with nearby electrical equipment, according to
US newswire reports. 

Schriner said the demonstration was intended as a wake up call to
the electronics industry. He said he wanted to show that even
low-budget saboteurs could inflict serious damage. He claims to
have built another machine capable of crashing computers, and cars
from a distance of 100 feet. That one cost him less than $300. 

Permanent damage is rare, Schriner says, but that is not the point.
The computers at the conference worked after re-booting. "But if that
happens to be a computer in a tank, or in a piece of medical
equipment, how long does it take to reboot?" he asks. "By that time
you could be dead." ® 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/6709.html

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