"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/

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  1. ミウツーmiu2d4rAugust 10, 2017 at 10:47 PM

    Children in Japan also know well by watching TV dramas that Computer viruses infect humans through games. It is still science fiction now.

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  2. Thorrfin SkullsplitterAugust 10, 2017 at 11:14 PM

    miu2d4r ミウツー Lets hope it stays sci-fi.

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  3. Martin BrennerAugust 10, 2017 at 11:23 PM

    To 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.

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  4. Thorrfin SkullsplitterAugust 10, 2017 at 11:26 PM

    Martin Brenner Oh the ideas.

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  5. Mohd AhmadAugust 11, 2017 at 12:04 AM

    MohdAhmad

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  6. Mario Valenzuela II (Relique)August 11, 2017 at 12:25 AM


    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tR9y2FJSBAoE_8k9iYU-fEpepEEiWYUG88HoJrS70QqoJayFXUfzXupJUMDNa_cnYHMcji1vRThqjxLhU8z7QYWZDgjK-9t3eZEa=s0

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  7. David KudrnaAugust 11, 2017 at 2:12 AM

    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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  8. VAIN VurxofAugust 11, 2017 at 3:58 AM

    Devra Bogdanovich​

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  9. Michelle SmithAugust 11, 2017 at 5:34 AM

    Well... this is far from good.

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  10. Catalina Reyes (CataCat)August 11, 2017 at 6:24 AM

    Martin 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.
    But. 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?)

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  11. Catalina Reyes (CataCat)August 11, 2017 at 6:38 AM

    But I think H. Richard Loeb​ is highlighting something else that DID call my attention.
    How 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...

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  12. Philipp J. Bock (I23I)August 11, 2017 at 6:47 AM

    wired.com - Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA

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  13. ReDSauCe (Closed)August 11, 2017 at 7:13 AM

    This is why the end of the world exists

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  14. Catalina Reyes (CataCat)August 11, 2017 at 7:17 AM

    Cyan Animations well, to be honest the end of the world would exist anyway for the mare reason that we orbit a star... xD

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  15. Martin BrennerAugust 11, 2017 at 8:16 AM

    Philipp J. Bock Excellent detailed article about this.

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  16. Abuali ZiaAugust 11, 2017 at 6:10 PM

    Games

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