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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".




I mean,

"(2) We use this finding to design malicious music to create resonance in DPSs, resulting in an overshooting in the DPS's normal pressure readings."

That's already pretty awesome. They could have just led with that. It's straight out of Godel, Escher, Bach :)




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