Oldie but Baddie: The Etherkiller

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[#1 posted by muteboy , March 11, 2009 5:16 PM]

Yowch. Reminds me of Gord's GameShark: http://www.actsofgord.com/Wrath/chapter03.php

[#2 posted by David Carroll , March 11, 2009 5:37 PM]

Hmm.. I've got an old 10mb hub that has been lying around out of service for like 10 years. I think I could SneakerNet data faster than it could. I am very tempted to hook up it's Ethernet ports to a 30 ampere 220 volt outdoor service I happen to have access to, just to see what would happen! I'm thinking of tying all 8 pins of three ports to each phase of the 220 for maximum carnage.

If I ever get around to it I'll post a link to video of the result...

[#3 posted by monopole , March 11, 2009 5:52 PM]

Power over Ethernet (PoE) ur doin it wrong!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

[#4 posted by strider_mt2k , March 11, 2009 5:55 PM]

I think this was confiscated in a prison for computers.

Likely one of the inmates would use it on the other in some kind of squabble over bandwidth or something.

[#5 posted by Enochrewt , March 11, 2009 6:16 PM]

I bet that sends a hell of a magic packet.

[#6 posted by carpoon , March 11, 2009 6:36 PM]

This is an old BOFH joke.

[#7 posted by GeekMan , March 11, 2009 6:59 PM]

David C: So if you suddenly stop posting, we know what happened.

[#8 posted by WeightedCompanionCube , March 11, 2009 7:55 PM]

Ethernet is supposed to have 1500 V RMS isolation across the coupling transformer.

Supposed to. This will find the ones that don't.

[#9 posted by Anonymous , March 11, 2009 8:59 PM]

funny till your three year old gets their hands on it

[#10 posted by kleer001 , March 11, 2009 9:01 PM]

That and a timer would make a kill switch for the terminally paranoid.

[#11 posted by O_P , March 11, 2009 9:25 PM]

This should probably come under HOWTO AND DIE.

[#12 posted by Anonymous , March 12, 2009 12:05 AM]

In before "I accidentally the whole datacenter."

[#13 posted by David Carroll , March 12, 2009 2:05 AM]

GeekMan (#7)

If that happens please nominate me for a Darwin Award 'cause I am so going to do this.

Strangely, I am having trouble sourcing Camlock to RJ-45 adaptors. I guess I will have to make them up myself...

[#14 posted by Gary61 , March 12, 2009 8:38 AM]

I hear they have the Internet on computers now.

[#15 posted by Mister Staal , March 12, 2009 12:14 PM]

This is how a former employer of mine recommended we treat speakers with intermittent faults in the crossovers. No longer were the faults intermittent. And the ozone smell is lovely.

Also, watching a 15" sub driver dance across the floor to 60Hz at 120VAC is pretty fun (until the circuit blows).

[#16 posted by didymos , March 12, 2009 1:53 PM]

I used to work as a tech at Best Buy prior to their addition of the "Geek Squad". Items similar to this were not entirely uncommon there, and were considered to be tools of the trade.

What's notable is that we would use such things to *help* the customer. When the service center would return an under-warranty device after failing to properly fix it for the third time, we would use these tools to ensure that there would no question when we returned it to them whether to attempt another repair or to replace it.

As a result, I have seen a repair estimate of over $800 on a $250 minidisc player, and a repair estimate for a computer on which the service center tech noted, "the only part that doesn't need to be replaced is the case."

[#17 posted by arkizzle , March 12, 2009 2:09 PM]

This is basically a reworking of the old Blotto Box, of Jolly Roger fame..

[#18 posted by mdf , March 12, 2009 9:39 PM]

Known in our shop as the Act of God jumper.

[#19 posted by GeekMan , March 12, 2009 10:25 PM]

@ David C. #13: Now you're just going for bonus points!

[#20 posted by WeightedCompanionCube , March 19, 2009 10:07 AM]

DIDYMOS - if you didn't manage to scorch or melt the case a little, you weren't trying hard enough!