Real pros shuffle across the carpet to build a static charge and do their system administration by electrical fault injection.

Don’t feel bad, it took a bunch of people a long time to find him.

Yeah, just having a little fun in the role of a paranoid admin. My setup isn’t worth mentioning since it fits my threat model (i.e. nobody gives a shit about my network, just don’t be the low hanging fruit) but I’m interested in other replies. Hope you get some useful responses here.

Nice try, attacker trying to get me to do their reconnaissance work for them. I’m on to you.

Just need the power LED to know it’s on, hard drive and keyboard LEDs to know it’s doing something and POST beep codes to know why it’s broken.

Don’t worry, that’s just some helpful code to enable the space heater feature of your computer.