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Microsoft: Bug in Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” could crash a laptop - The Record by Recorded Future

https://therecord.media/microsoft-bug-in-janet-jacksons-rhythm-nation-could-crash-a-laptop/

the vulnerability comes from a phenomenon discovered by Microsoft where playing “Rhythm Nation” would cause any laptop with a certain hard drive to crash.

In its CVE page, the MITRE organization said the 5400 RPM OEM hard drives were shipped primarily with many laptop PCs around 2005. If played near these laptops, the song causes “a denial of service (device malfunction and system crash) via a resonant-frequency attack.”