killer poke

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈkɪlə(ɹ) pəʊk/

Noun

(computing) Any method of inducing physical harm to a computer or peripheral by software means, especially by inserting invalid values into a control register or by building up harmonic oscillations in a hard disk, etc.

Japanese Meaning

パソコンや周辺機器に対してソフトウェアの手段を用い、制御レジスタへ不正な値を挿入する、またはハードディスクの共振振動を誘導することで、物理的損傷を与える方法。

What is this buttons?

The security team discovered a killer poke in the firmware update that could physically damage a hard drive.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

セキュリティチームは、ファームウェアの更新にハードウェアを損傷させるソフトウェア命令を発見し、それがハードディスクを物理的に損傷する可能性があることを確認した。

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Sense（1）

killer poke n. A recipe for inducing hardware damage on a machine via insertion of invalid values (see poke) into a memory-mapped control register; used esp. of various fairly well-known tricks on bitty boxes without hardware memory management (such as the IBM PC and Commodore PET) that can overload and crash analog electronics in the monitor.]

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

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killer pokes

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