Certain 5400 RPM hard drives, for laptops and other PCs in approximately 2005 and later, allow physically proximate malicious users to cause a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video. A reported product is Seagate STDT4000100 763649053447.
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The music video for Janet Jackson's 1989 song "Rhythm Nation" has been recognized as a cybersecurity vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash old laptop computers. "A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support," wrote Microsoft blogger Raymond Chen. The story detailed how "A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' would crash certain models of laptops." Further investigation revealed that multiple ma...
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