"In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer...
"In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a malicious program coded into a strand of DNA."
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/08/10/a-different-kind-of-virus/
http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/08/10/a-different-kind-of-virus/
Children in Japan also know well by watching TV dramas that Computer viruses infect humans through games. It is still science fiction now.
ReplyDeletemiu2d4r ミウツー Lets hope it stays sci-fi.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, it was a DNA analyzing computer and it was the digital representation of the DNA which exploits a vulnerability created by the reasearches themselves, but the idea is interesting nevertheless and in theory every computer system (or AI) taking input of non-digital data can be vulnerable to an attack - imagine face recognition software or finger print readers that you could infect with specially crafted patterns.
ReplyDeleteMartin Brenner Oh the ideas.
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Martin Brenner amazing to think. Understandably it's all in theroy, but there is practical application for defeating facial recognition and retinal scan software. Probably not for anything legal though.
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ReplyDeleteWell... this is far from good.
ReplyDeleteMartin Brenner this is actually a very good thinking on the possible applications of this. Basically, you can find other means to infect and attack computer systems no longer retrained by the medium of computing itself.
ReplyDeleteBut. The article does say that this is pretty far-fetched and that most of the data (of this were attempted in more real-life situations) would be corrupted and/or useless anyway and it wouldn't affect the computer system.
Also, the journalist did admit wanting to fear-monger on purpose and that the escenarioeas not as apocalyptic as he was hoping it to be...
So all you people... call down!!! CD
(Have I told you how much I hate scientific journalists' doing this sort of crap?)
But I think H. Richard Loeb is highlighting something else that DID call my attention.
ReplyDeleteHow humans love investigating and inventing things on the edge between interesting and terrifying and how the excuse "if we don't build it somebody else will" has been used too many times. Wasn't/isn't that a common justification Niantic (has) used many times...
wired.com - Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
ReplyDeleteThis is why the end of the world exists
ReplyDeleteCyan Animations well, to be honest the end of the world would exist anyway for the mare reason that we orbit a star... xD
ReplyDeletePhilipp J. Bock Excellent detailed article about this.
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