Andrew Warren <fastfwd@IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> You also can't erase PICs by putting them in a magnetic field,
> accelerating them to significant fractions of the speed of
> light, playing loud music at them, holding them under water,
> shaking them vigorously, or tapping on them with small hammers.

However, *sufficient* application of any of these methods will render it
impossible to determine whether the PIC is erased or not.