Comments on: BSoDomizer blue-screens your enemies

By: Kingpin

Kingpin — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:59:41 +0000

@darkfader: Some VGA ports offer +5V on one of the pins, but it’s not a required part of the standard, so we couldn’t rely on that for power input. No, the image turns off when the PC is powered off, since we monitor the HSYNC signal coming from the computer and when that stops, we assume the system has been rebooted or restarted and we revert back to harmless “pass through” mode. That will make the unit harder to detect and allows you to continue to screw with your target for as long as you’d like.

@octelcogopod: Go flux yourself. So sorry I didn’t clean up my prototype circuit board just for you. Boo hoo.

By: View

View — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:50:46 +0000

Personally, i’d make this into a VGA – DVI convertor, then put it in plastic casing, then give it to your victim. They’d just assume it was a normal part.

By: octelcogopod

octelcogopod — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:41:04 +0000

ew, that pcb looks gross. someone explain to this guy how to remove flux residue

By: dnm

dnm — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:00:27 +0000

pcairic: Quit your whining. It’s just goofing around. Fuck you ‘PC’ (and I mean politically correct) types are whiny.

By: homergonerson

homergonerson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:44:42 +0000

@treg:
amazing idea :) surely someone could set it up to do that.

and also, one thing i noticed. when i was watching prototype this, the camera showed you a glimpse of the code, and it looked like joe was using c or c++, but the source on the site is in basic

By: jim

jim — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:07:41 +0000

nice

By: Tralli

Tralli — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:54:05 +0000

legendary

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:42:10 +0000

The idea of subliminal goatse is truly scary… your victim would just sit there feeling vaguely disgusted, but have absolutely no idea why…

The ‘headgames’ possibilities are endless. >:-)

By: treg

treg — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:15:31 +0000

Wow, if this thing can synch to the computer’s refresh rate and resolution, it means that it can make instant image switching, adding some 1/100 seconds subliminal picture while you are doing anything on your computer… scarry :(

By: Frogz

Frogz — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:45:01 +0000

hahahahaha
this is why prototype this wasnt pure win
NEEDED MORE ASCII GOATSE
with that, it would have been renewed for 4 seasons after the first episode

why couldnt this have been on tv instead…direct vga bluescreen is somethiung actually useful!

By: nachowarrior

nachowarrior — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:58:12 +0000

too bad the bsod at the olympics wasn’t caused by this…

By: mike

mike — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:31:03 +0000

why not just use the bsod screen saver? Thats a classic prank.

By: x1140710

x1140710 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:52:48 +0000

this is awesome and ide totally buy one…if it wasnt 80 F**king dollars

By: Jerome

Jerome — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:20:25 +0000

They use the MAX4885

it is a Complete VGA 1:2 or 2:1 Multiplexer

http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/5186

pretty cool!

the problem is that it is a TQFN package, something you don’t wan’t to play with!
Impossible to solder with your normal solering iron!

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:58:30 +0000

I thought most VGA ports had +5V available. I wonder if the image stays when powering off the PC.
Anyway, SysInternals has a nice BSOD screensaver. With access to a PC, you could trigger it via network somehow.