You *know* that has to feature in a movie script at some point. "Why do you carry a harmonica?" "Because I can play it at exactly the right frequency to brick a hard drive."
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They even have a sample attack where playing a loud noise causes surveillance cameras to silently lose data!
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Not so impractical! I remember
@brendangregg writing about his adventures with sound interfering with HDs 10 years ago. http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2008/12/31/unusual-disk-latency/ … His video is hilarious! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The Copenhagen stock exchange was down for five hours earlier this year. Turned out to be the fire *alarm*, rather than an actual fire, causing the outage:http://nordic.businessinsider.com/scandinavian-stock-exchanges-halted-by-loud-noise-2018-4?r=US&IR=T …
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Same thing took out a bank’s data center in Bucharest this year.
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The speaker also has a magnet in it....
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Easier version: trigger the fire suppression system Most of them cause a sudden pressure change which is enough to brick drives (this happened in Australia's one exchange *very* recently, and happens n>3 in most years) Extra benefit is that it also hides your target in noise
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