At first I thought this was click bait, too. But actually..
TL;DR take: Hospitals and labs contain deadly pathogens in regions of lowered air pressure. Sophisticated electronics monitor pressure and control the evacuation system accordingly. Many such spaces have resonant frequencies in the audio range. Ergo, it's possible to play specific tones through an entertainment system to establish significant deviation from the average pressure to fool the sensors, and disrupt the containment. Such tones could be embedded in pop music.
> Moreover, we demonstrate our attack at a real-world NPR located in an anonymous bioresearch facility, which is FDA approved and follows CDC guidelines.
To ensure complete obliteration of the planet's life forms, a second attack with Celine Dion is recommended.
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It isn't really the ACM, the authors got their paper accepted with a funny name, which isn't uncommon practice.
Goto considered harmful or programming with bananas and barbed wire also got quite a popularity thanks to their unconventional naming. It is in some cases clearly abused.
Also, you need to read the abstract in full to understand what it's about, a cursory reading feels like buzzwords from completely unrelated domains.
A real title could be "Fooling biolabs security measures with audio waves embedabble in popular music".
Humor is not clickbait. The research shows that it is possible to compromise pathogen storage facilities by embedding specific frequencies/tones in popular music, hence the humorous but not misleading title.
From the headline, I was hoping for some kind of memetic Snow Crash type pathogen that infects you when you hear it