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Aside from overstressing the hardwareoverstressing the hardware, there are firmware viruses, which could wreck hardware not by physically damaging it, but simply by making it inoperable (which might as well be "physical," since the hardware can no longer be used in any system).

Aside from overstressing the hardware, there are firmware viruses, which could wreck hardware not by physically damaging it, but simply by making it inoperable (which might as well be "physical," since the hardware can no longer be used in any system).

Aside from overstressing the hardware, there are firmware viruses, which could wreck hardware not by physically damaging it, but simply by making it inoperable (which might as well be "physical," since the hardware can no longer be used in any system).

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Aside from overstressing the hardware, there are firmware viruses, which could wreck hardware not by physically damaging it, but simply by making it inoperable (which might as well be "physical," since the hardware can no longer be used in any system).