{"id":51543,"date":"2022-08-21T01:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-destroy-a-computer-hard-drive-with-a-janet-jackson-song\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T01:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:09:38","slug":"how-to-destroy-a-computer-hard-drive-with-a-janet-jackson-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-destroy-a-computer-hard-drive-with-a-janet-jackson-song\/","title":{"rendered":"How to destroy a computer hard drive with a Janet Jackson song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OAwaNWGLM0c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/span>\n<\/p><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:embed -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In a recent blog, Raymond Chen, a software engineer Microsoft, discussed the surprising discovery that Janet Jackson&#8217;s song &#8220;Rhythm Nation&#8221; is powerful enough to physically destroy some computer hard drives.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Or, well, at least it resonates at the right frequency to destabilize and crash the hard drive:<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:quote -->\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>One discovery during the investigation is that playing the music video [for &#8220;Rhythm Nation&#8221;] also crashed some of their competitors&#8217; laptops.  And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn&#8217;t playing the video!<\/p><p>What&#8217;s going on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- \/wp:quote -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>this problem only affected some older, Windows XP-era laptops (circa 2005, according to the official CVE luckily-ID vulnerability listing from the Miter Corporation), so you <em>probably<\/em> don&#8217;t have anything to worry about.  for now.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers [Raymond Chen \/ Microsoft]<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->                <\/div><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '1174428159312267');fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init', '1174428159312267');fbq('track', 'PageView');<\/script>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent blog, Raymond Chen, a software engineer Microsoft, discussed the surprising discovery that Janet Jackson&#8217;s song &#8220;Rhythm Nation&#8221; is powerful enough to physically destroy some computer hard drives. Or, well, at least it resonates at the right frequency to destabilize and crash the hard drive: One discovery during the investigation is that playing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-to-destroy-a-computer-hard-drive-with-a-janet-jackson-song\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to destroy a computer hard drive with a Janet Jackson song<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49281,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/playing-a-janet-jackson-song-would-crash-some-old-laptops\/","url_meta":{"origin":51543,"position":0},"title":"Playing a Janet Jackson song would crash some old laptops","date":"August 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a new favorite bug: Janet Jackson's 1989 certified choon Rhythm Nation had an uncanny ability to crash certain old laptops. this was nothing to do with the file itself; even being near another laptop playing the song could cause a crash. 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