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How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You?

Posted by timothy on from the two-bits-buys-a-razor-blade dept.

pegr writes "Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Reverse Engineer, XBox hacker, and generally smart guy, muses over the H1N1/swine flu virus as only a reverse engineer can: 'I now know how to modify the virus sequence to probably make it more deadly.' Not that he would, of course. bunnie has consistently made the esoteric available to us mere mortals, and his overview of the H1N1 virus is a fascinating read from a unique perspective." (Seen today also at the top of Schneier on Security.)

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  1. Re:fascinating! by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >>>"biological informatics".

    Why not just call it "programming"? Whether you're writing code for machine made of sand (silicon) or chemicals should not matter one bit. Ya know in Babylon 5, the Vorlons and Shadows didn't just "grow" their ships. They programmed the DNA to produce the desired result. I see no reason why we humans can't do the same.

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