Janet Jackson's power knows no bounds.
, the wacky-sounding claim is absolutely true.
"A certain 5400 RPM OEM hard drive, as shipped with laptop PCs in approximately 2005," reads the CVE warning, "allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service via a resonant-frequency attack with the audio signal from the Rhythm Nation music video." In other words, "Rhythm Nation" possesses the natural resonant frequencies for a specific laptop hard drive. Thus, like an opera singer's falsetto might shatter a wine glass, Jackson's poppy vocal chops can rock these particular computers into malfunction.
"I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem," Chen mused, perhaps to say that he wouldn't want to listen to "Rhythm Nation" on repeat for hours on end. However, he did thoughtfully add: "Not an artistic judgement." Chen further explained that the manufacturer skirted the issue by "adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline," which worked to detect and remove the crash-causing frequencies. But
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