Re: Resend: A little bit about Apple product security
Re: Resend: A little bit about Apple product security
- Subject: Re: Resend: A little bit about Apple product security
- From: Benjamin Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:52:21 +0000
Absolutely fascinating Christian and thanks for posting this.
One thing I have always recommended to anyone with a computer which
they leave on all the time, is a little home office fire extinguisher.
Most hardware/DIY stores sell ones suitable for electrical fires for
$50-100 and they are SO important to have, just in case the worst
happens. We even gave one away as a competition prize a while back.
B.
On 10 Jan 2004, at 21:09, Christian Lichtenvort wrote:
Hello everyone,
maybe this could be something very interesting for you about the Apple
product
security.
Yesterday (Monday, 5th January 2004) I saw in a german tv show (WISO)
a clip
that demonstrate what happens, if computers and accessoirs begin to
burn.
It was on the ZDF channel (second german television).
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/mediathek/0,1903,MD-1000050-vi,00.html
video name: Stichprobe: Brandgefdhrliche Hardware
And the video media is here:
<http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/mediathek/video_realVideoPath/1,1471,,00.ram?
ramParam=rtsp://62.153.159.180/zdf///040105_stichprobe_wis_h.rm>
Copy all manually between <...>.
It is a realmedia file - open it in RealOne Player.
Btw - the clip is in german - sorry for that.
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Summary translation - made by J. Buell - THANKS for that
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The idea of the clip was - what happens if Computers/accessories catch
fire
in a house/office, and which are the worst in causing high
temperatures and
high amounts of poisonous gasses? All of the equipment was no more than
three years old, so that anything they tested would be fairly
commonplace.
All of the printers started burning within 30 seconds - and they show
the
temperatures given off in Celsius on screen.
The Lifetech MT5 (a German machine) and the HP Vectra started burning
on
their own within 20 seconds. The FujitsuSiemens and Sony Vaios took
30-40
seconds. The G3 iMac did NOT burn!
In terms of poisonous gasses, the burning computers gave off 30 TIMES
allowable amounts of Carbon Monoxide. The professor they interviewed
from
Wuppertal gives a human 2-3 minutes time to get out of a room where
such
a computer might be burning, before the poison gas levels are fatal.
Monitors: The Philips, Belinea, Gericom and Medion monitors didn't
catch fire
(You can get Medion stuff at US Aldi stores now, believe it or not).
But the
Novita monitor burned pretty quickly (within 40 seconds). The burning
monitor
was giving off HIGH concentrations of CO and other gases.
They called it a "Poison Gas Cocktail."
Keyboards: The MS Keyboard started burning within SIX seconds! The
Cherry and
Hama and Logitech keyboards burned within 30 seconds. The Apple
Keyboard did
NOT burn!
Someone needs to get this kind of translation out in public - if
keyboards can
go up THAT quickly, this is DANGEROUS!
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Interesting sequences:
2:45 Apple iMac
4:55 Apple keyboard
5:50 Hear what the moderator say: It is time for the computer industry
to
make their products as safe as possible. Because others (Apple) make
it already.
--
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Best regards,
Christian Lichtenvort
"A crash a day keeps the user away..." ;-)
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* Christian Lichtenvort
* Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Mechatronics - Bachelor of Science (BS)
* Deutschland - Germany
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Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Best regards,
Christian Lichtenvort
"A crash a day keeps the user away..." ;-)
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* Christian Lichtenvort
* Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Mechatronics - Bachelor of Science (BS)
* Deutschland - Germany
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* Fax.: (0049) (0)201 402267
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