Off Topic Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation will actually blow your old harddrive apart.

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Janet Jackson's 1989 mega-hit 'Rhythm Nation' sonically smashes old hard drives​

Janet Jackson's 1989 mega-hit 'Rhythm Nation' sonically smashes old hard drives

Security researchers have found an unusual security vulnerability in certain Windows XP-era laptops: The musical stylings of Janet Jackson.

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Turns out that the 5,400 RPM hard drives from a number of old Windows-era laptops possess a brown note of their own: Janet Jackson's 1989 mega-hit "Rhythm Nation."


According to Microsoft Software Engineer, Raymond Chen, who recounted the tale in a Microsoft Developers Blog post earlier this week, "a major computer manufacturer discovered" that playing the music video (above) would not only crash the hard drive of the laptop it was running on, but also any other similar model within earshot.

Now you know why you lost your classic porn collection.
RIP somebodies' Lightspeed Universty collection.

 

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This was a good read.