Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-centers, and other computing environments

Simple workaround – just throw everything at it.

Back in the day, when (reliable) digital was first appearing in sound reinforcement equipment, we tried “streaming” from a desktop CPU optical out – with regular old HDD – into a digital crossover.

The show itself was for about 2500 seats, so we had brought along the “infrasonic” system: amps and 18" EVs for delivering 12-28Hz…maybe 4000 watts. Sure enough, as soon as the house got to rockin’ the stream began to stutter, skip, and stop. Kill the infra system and all was well; cut it back in and the fun would start all over ; -)

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