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Janet Jackson will crash your hard drive

ICOM257

Janet Jackson will crash your hard drive

leftovers dropped Jul 1, 2025

ingredients

ICOM257-preview.mp3 · 608.33 KB
🧂 ICOM257-ingredients.zip · 1 file · 4.48 MB
📄 ICOM257-notes.txt · who, what, why

In August 2022, Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen published an article detailing how playing the music video on or nearby certain laptops would cause a crash. The song contains one of the natural resonant frequencies to some 5400 RPM OEM-laptop hard drives used around the year 2005. This vulnerability was assigned a CVE ID of CVE-2022-38392, which describes a possible denial of service attack, and references Raymond Chen's blog post. YouTuber Adam Neely traced the song's resonant peak at 84.2 Hz, which he hypothesized as the combination of the song's bassline at the note E with a possible use of pitch control to increase the speed and pitch of the song during production, as the source of the offending resonant frequency.

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