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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. fascinating! by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only biologists had thought of the idea of treating DNA/RNA sequences as data, and then analyzing their properties statistically and computationally, with an eye towards what effects different modifications to the sequences might be predicted to have. We might call this field something fancy like "biological informatics".

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    1. Re:fascinating! by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why not just call it "programming"?

      To avoid 90 hour work weeks and lousy pay.

  2. How many bits does it take to kill you? by MBCook · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know, go ask Mr. Owl.

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  3. Port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe region by quatin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like we need a firewall.

  4. Re:It's humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbyt by Ihmhi · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's humblings that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes

    3.2 kbytes should be enough to kill anyone.

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