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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.)

3 of 300 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Andrew "Davros" Huang by itsybitsy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Awesome! Funny! Intelligent! Relevant!

    Moderators are such fools...

  2. seriously by KingPin27 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    64K ought to be enough for everybody.

    --
    "i lost my dignity on a slippery wiener"
  3. Re:Increasing mortality is bad for business by frosty_tsm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, HIV has become less deadly as time goes by. There's been selective pressure for it to kill the hosts more slowly:

    http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1716/

    Fixed it for you.