[1]Damaging Hard Drives with an Ultrasonic Attack

     Playing a sound over the speakers can cause [2]computers to crash
     and possibly even physically damage the hard drive.

   I don't know why this is news. My university friends and I knew this in
   the early 90's, and I think it was common knowledge at the time. Did
   the sound have to be ultrasonic? No. But we knew a loud party could
   screw up the hard drives we had in our desktop computers. As low end
   bass became more and more of a thing, it was even easier to see the
   connection.

   We played audio cassettes at parties to deal with this very issue.
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   My original entry is here: [3]Hard Drives Susceptible to Loud Music?
   Yeah, We Know. It posted Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:17:25 +0000.
   Filed under: tech,

References

   1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/damaging_hard_d.html
   2. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/attackers-can-send-sounds-to-ddos-video-recorders-and-pcs/
   3. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1178