>The multidisciplinary team at the University of Washington isn’t out to make outlandish headlines, although it’s certainly done that. They were concerned that the security infrastructure around DNA transcription and analysis was inadequate, having found elementary vulnerabilities in OPENSORES software used in labs around the world. Given the nature of the data usually being handled, this could be a serious problem going forward.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/malicous-code-written-into-dna-infects-the-computer-that-reads-it/?ncid=rss
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Freetards on suicide watch!
so..you have to bioengineer an organism that looks and acts like a human being, with DNA arranged in a specific way to be able to use a vulnerability in the software?
this is a new level of paranoia
>>61833655
Patched.
>that episode of Bones where some guy hacked the Smithsonian's supercomputer by scanning books at a local library is real
>>61833655
ITT an idiot who found headline and read to the point "open source"
>OMG! I will make a great suicide watch thread on /g/!!!
While in fact, people who found vurnability were looking for one to be ahead of attacker and make open source software secure.
OP on suicide watch
>>61833706
>genetically engineer pigs or mice with malicious DNA
>slaughter them
>take their blood
>commit a crime
>make sure you leave no DNA
>just to be sure spill a bucket of the malicious blood on the floor where the crime
>law enforcement scans it
>fucks their computer
>>61833706
you could just create a malicious sample and give it to them for analysis
>>61833706
>tfw that organism is your wife's son
>>61833798
Saved to my shadowrun plot hook list.