The “brown noise” is a legendary tone purportedly able to inflicting folks to lose management of their bowels when subjected to its gut-punching harmonic resonance. South Park did a whole thing on it. Turns out that the 5400 RPM onerous drives from plenty of outdated Windows-era laptops possess a brown note of their own: Janet Jackson’s 1989 mega-hit ‘Rhythm Nation.’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 story in a Microsoft Developers Blog post earlier this week, “a major computer manufacturer discovered” that taking part in the music video (above) wouldn’t solely crash the onerous drive of the laptop computer it was working on but additionally every other related mannequin inside earshot.

The Mitre Corporation was not amused by this newfound vulnerability, issuing it an entry within the CVE database. After a radical investigation, the system producer confirmed that the track contained one of many pure resonant frequencies of the onerous drives taking part in the track basically rattled the gadgets aside. Rather than recall untold numbers of decades-old drives, the producer as a substitute opted to develop a workaround by “adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback,” in accordance with Chen.