Killer poke
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killer-poke-165-16911579
title:
Killer poke
text:
In computer jargon, a killer poke is a method of inducing physical hardware damage on a machine or its peripherals by the insertion of invalid values, via, for example, BASIC's POKE command, into a memory-mapped control register. The term is typically used to describe a family of fairly well known tricks that can overload the analog electronics in the CRT monitors of computers lacking hardware sanity checking
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Software means of causing computer hardware damage
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
date created:
2001-11-05T13:01:26Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T14:26:05Z
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