Herf Gun
HERF stands for high energy radio frequency. A HERF gun is used to disrupt digital equipment such as computers by blasting them with HERF emissions.
A herf gun will typicaly cost around $150 to make, it is also generaly the size of the a backpack that can put out an impressive 16 megawatt pulse.
A HERF blast is a very high type of electromagnetic radiation that can do a considerable amount of damage to a PC. It can completely erase a hard disk, crash the PC and could even fuse the silicon barriers on the chips in the computer rendering it useless. Most electricl appliances are at risk to this type of attack, it is even possable to stall a car at a set of traffic ligths with a herf gun.
The threat of a person using a herf gun to disrupt your PC is very slim, but the Government have to face the facts that an information war using high tech but cheap weapons could be a reality in the near future.
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