Logan DiceSep 2, 2018

Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence.

We're going to live in a very weird world man.

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack

Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA

Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.

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@LoganDice In a way, it's logical, from the analyzing program's point of view, the DNA only ever is input data, but still… wow.
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@otini @LoganDice Woow, I'm rather on the "it's amazing" side rather than "it's awful" side for now 😲
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