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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

Posted by timothy on from the feed-your-flashdrive dept.

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."

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  1. Shows the ultimate futility of copyright.. by xtal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When you can carry around the sum total of humanity's creative works in a backpack that's easily copied, traditional notions of intellectual property become meaningless. No amount of legal penalty will change this. The drive to share the experience of new information is too strong.

    Adapt or die.

    --
    ..don't panic