Reply to post: Re: I smell a hoax.

Janet Jackson music video declared a cybersecurity exploit

GruntyMcPugh Silver badge

Re: I smell a hoax.

re: "It’s a specific type of HDD with the issue"

If there was any merit in the story though, we'd expect different tempo music affecting different hardware in the same way, and we've never encountered that. If your datacentre dumps it's fire suppression gas, that goes off with a bit of a pressure wave, and that can damage hard drives, but it is an energectic event. I doubt a few watts of sound energy can have the same effect as gas stored at a couple of hundred bar being dumped in seconds.

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