Sonic Tone Attacks Damage Hard Disk Drives, Crashes OS May 29, 2018 https://threatpost.com/sonic-tone-attacks-damage-hard-disk-drives-crashes-os/132343/ Research paper entitled (PDF): How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability and Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems. https://spqr.eecs.umich.edu/papers/bolton-blue-note-IEEESSP-2018.pdf
Oh now is interesting stuff. It's been done or at least considered on Windows O/S versions previous. If you ever run across those forums that delight in discovering novel ways to upset PC mechanical/electro controllers etc you no doubt run across some pretty exotic ideas and such like that they put a lot of effort into trying to fashion up. Another most worrisome is if they learn to propel magnetics with a gauss high enough to blow the connecting innards apart. I have to keep a very high rated (my hobby) magnet thickly wrapped and in a confined area away from everything. Have had magnets strong enough to shatter itself to bits when in proximity to raw metal. Acoustic Interference is something that most of us would never considered before as a potential hardware disruptor but makes sense given some sensitivity of certain computer components.
