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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria
Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."
If that bacteria mutates and starts spreading through human hosts, EVERYONE will have your data!
It's what happens when you store your spell-checking software into 1 gram of bacteria.
The next time i wipe my hard drive, I could do it with bleach?
who prays for Satan? Who in 18 centuries has had the humanity to pray for the 1 sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain
Bateria?
Was the research funded by Bruce Wayne
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!
My Windows computer has been infected! Go buy another 2TB hard drive, I'm running out of space at an exponential rate!
In Soviet Russia, bacteria infects your data!
The Bacteria Protection Agency is up in arms!
Hello nerds. Look at your keyboard, now back to me, now back at your keyboard, now back to me. Sadly, it's infected with bacteria, but if you stopped washing your hands, it could be a lot worst. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re still at your desk reading this shit. What’s on your hand, back at me. I have it, the solution to your storage problems. Look again, the bacteria are now data. Anything is possible when you stop bathing. I’m a trojan horse.
etc.
It's where the bats eat lunch?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Except, ironically, now your comment will be tagged interesting/informative.
You just foiled your own prediction.
And yet, they till haven't fixed it after so many comments. It mut be intentional!
I had it stored on my brand-new crash-proof bio-Raid 5 array. But Smokey scored a big bag of weed last night, got the hungry and thought the bio-drives were blocks of ice cream I'd forgotten to put away. He tossed them in the freezer and ate 'em with chocolate sauce. I guess crash-proof, isn't munchy-proof.
Every time I sit on the crapper I must be producing terrabytes of back-up storage.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Does "1g of bacteria" mean 1000 or 1024 milligrams?
Now we've got three meanings for GB:
1GB = 10^9
1GB = 2^30
1GB = 1 Gram Bacteria
When will the madness end!?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Problem: Sneezing, and losing your entire collection of pornography.
Benefit: My offsite backup facility is now a brothel.
"There is no aspect of computing which does not, in some way, relate to sex."
Little Bobby Tables, we call him.
Anyone else see a security problem in opening a PDF from some source in China?
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Warning! McAfee and Symantec have reported a new computer virus that is spreading widely over internet and snail mail. Actually it is not a virus, but an antibiotic, which will kill all your hard drive bacteria.
Security companies are working hand-on-hand with hard drive manufacturers for injecting the N-1 gene into the affected bacteria, with the hope of making them resistant to the virus or antibiotics, depending on how you want to call it. The medical community is getting nuts with the new definitions, and some people have even compared them to the Gb vs Gib war. There has also been discussion regarding the potential dangers of such bacteria mutating into a self-aware being. Oh wait, never mind. Please, every one move to SSD storage ASAP