Posted on 08/19/2022 12:30:11 PM PDT by dayglored
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Janet Jackson's music video for her 1989 hit single Rhythm Nation has been declared a security vulnerability after a Microsoft engineer discovered it could freeze some hard drives on older computers.
Raymond Chen, the Microsoft engineer, said that a colleague shared a story from Windows XP product support that described a "major computer manufacturer" who discovered the music video would crash certain models of laptops.
During the manufacturer's investigation, it was discovered that the audio signal from the music video crashed some of their competitors' computers. But there was more to it than that. It also found that playing the video on one computer caused other nearby computers to crash.
What could possibly be going on? Chen explains:
"It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used..."[Lots more at the link]
(Excerpt) Read more at secureworld.io ...
Here’s one for the “WTF?!?” ping list, and many others....
I knew her butt would get too big eventually!.....................
I don’t know if I can possibly get beyond this...
If true, then anyone can creatr an audio file with the same resonant frequency and crash hard drives.
Well, when being chased by bird men and a Klingon, Kirk and Spock blew up the side of a desert cliff with their communicators.
I would bet that there wasn’t a test case for this when the computers were released. ;-)
“I don’t know if I can possibly get beyond this...”
Try to hang on.
>> the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives
cool
Fortunately all my Janet Jackson is on 8-track...
Is this the one where her boob “accidentally” pops out?
Cuz I don’t wanna see that again....no joke
Look here, not there... (at an analog “Stuxnet” for spinning hard drives...)
~Easy
She’s way too sexy in that music video anyway.
her 1989 hit single Rhythm Nation has been declared a security vulnerability...
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Actually, a pretty awesome dance video, even 33 years later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAwaNWGLM0c
No, that was the SuperBowl halftime incident, and the song was Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body".
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XXXVIII_halftime_show_controversy):
As Timberlake reached his final line of "Rock Your Body" ("Gonna have you naked by the end of this song"), he pulled off a part of Jackson's costume; the move revealed Jackson's right breast—adorned by a sun-shaped nipple shield—for less than a second...
Just a feeble attempt at a joke my friend......and apparently a very good one. 😏
And this is a story that will be on our local host radio segment “Choose Your Shocking (Fake) News” tomorrow.
At least I will know that it is true.
Ah, so. Well, it's fair to say that there have been a number of "nip slips" over the years in the music videos, with all the jumping and gyrating the dancers do. Even a few legendary ones on the red carpet, too.
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