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by aksss 1164 days ago
I’ve heard it’s possible to anonymously fry people’s systems with annoyingly loud bass this way. Urban legend?
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> Urban legend?

Likely, we had a thread on HN a few years back that just turned out to be IR remote disabling speakers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28817683 .

However there are some 'jammer' type technologies used to temporarily disable cars and UAV's by causing the chips to overload and makes the ECM crash on most cars. It doesn't fry them: https://www.teledyne-e2v.com/en/solutions/rf-power/rf-soluti... and an article on it https://www.police1.com/police-products/pursuit-management-t...