sounds and nerve sizzling microwaves.
Centrifuges and Hard Drives were easy.
Brains are the ultimate goal.
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~Easy
Posted on 08/19/2022 12:30:11 PM PDT by dayglored
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Janet Jackson's music video for her 1989 hit single Rhythm Nation has been declared a security vulnerability after a Microsoft engineer discovered it could freeze some hard drives on older computers.
Raymond Chen, the Microsoft engineer, said that a colleague shared a story from Windows XP product support that described a "major computer manufacturer" who discovered the music video would crash certain models of laptops.
During the manufacturer's investigation, it was discovered that the audio signal from the music video crashed some of their competitors' computers. But there was more to it than that. It also found that playing the video on one computer caused other nearby computers to crash.
What could possibly be going on? Chen explains:
"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used..."[Lots more at the link]
(Excerpt) Read more at secureworld.io ...
One of my picks during my college radio days.
So what does playing “Puberty Love” do to your hard drive, or does it only work on tomatoes?
Centrifuges and Hard Drives were easy.
Brains are the ultimate goal.
🐸
~Easy
Now if it was Britney Spears I’d be all in!......so to speak. 😏
Well this is no surprise. Every time her songs come on my hard drive crashes too.
For many years, Raymond Chen’s website and blog (The Old New Thing) have been my ‘go-to’ resolution sites for finding answers to the most obscure Windows problems. Very knowledgeable guy, Chen is.
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Man, she can really put those chips away!
If this is true, then there’s a very good chance that any Yoko Oh-No song can freeze 7200 rpm drives. The good news is that no one can actually stand to listen to her.
Good point. Statements such as “IF someone were to listen to a Yoko Ono song, then X could happen” remain purely theoretical propositions.
IF true, it would require a sound system played at sufficiently loud decibels that was of high quality enough to reproduce that particular frequency, with close enough proximity to said hard drive.
Besides, who still uses a 5400 hard drive while rocking out to THAT video???
It crashes 5400 RPM spinning plate hard drives. Today’s SSD’s would be unaffected.
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