Re: [silk] Malware encoded in a strand of DNA

On 08/11/2017 07:44 AM, Thaths wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/ "...a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it th

Re: [silk] Malware encoded in a strand of DNA

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Thaths wrote: > > Malware for one platform encoded into code on another platform. > > Very cool. Maybe the Planetary Protection Officer should now be trained in SQL Injection attacks and how to safeguard data plane / contro

[silk] Malware encoded in a strand of DNA

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/ "...a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that