This is really nothing more than a PR stunt.
What the researchers did was take a sequencing data compression program fqzcomp written for the Sequence Squeeze competition and deliberately broke it so there was a buffer overrun. What's more is that they broke it in such a way that all DNA sequences would have made the program go wrong in some way, probably by crashing it.
All they demonstrated is that if you break a program then it is broken.
All DNA sequencing machines produce well formed data files as output so you cannot cause a buffer overrun just by adding your own special DNA variant sample. It would just be treated like any normal sample data. There are vulnerabilities in sequencing data processing program code but to exploit them you would have to alter the file themselves not the DNA samples going into the machine.
No they will not patent this. The work was done by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute that is funded (unsurprisingly) by the Wellcome Trust which is a big medical research charity. The Sanger Institute releases all of its research into the public domain.
I'm pretty sure restricted marked info can be sent in the Royal Mail (but not all couriers strangely enough)
Many years ago when I worked as a postman, anyone delivering mail had to sign the Official Secrets Act. I doubt couriers would normally sign it so their ability to carry restricted mail would be restricted.
All the permanent Security Council members (USA, UK, France, Russia and China) have broken or ignored UN resolutions over the years, as have many other countries for good reasons and bad.
I think the UN is generally a good thing, but it does come up with questionable policies from time to time. This is one of those times. There is no reason for the UN to get involved in the cloning debate at this stage. If individual countries want to encourage or ban cloning, then it should be up to them. This is not really a global matter.
In theory the company I work for have locked down Unix and NT systems.
However all the development teams know the root passwords for both systems and use them freely.
IT knows about this. In fact in quietly keeps the developers supplied with passwords. They long ago worked out that giving programmers control over their own machines leads to a much quiter life.
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This is really nothing more than a PR stunt. What the researchers did was take a sequencing data compression program fqzcomp written for the Sequence Squeeze competition and deliberately broke it so there was a buffer overrun. What's more is that they broke it in such a way that all DNA sequences would have made the program go wrong in some way, probably by crashing it.
All they demonstrated is that if you break a program then it is broken.
All DNA sequencing machines produce well formed data files as output so you cannot cause a buffer overrun just by adding your own special DNA variant sample. It would just be treated like any normal sample data. There are vulnerabilities in sequencing data processing program code but to exploit them you would have to alter the file themselves not the DNA samples going into the machine.
Not really, most developing countries bypass the entire analogue mobile stage and go straight to digital.
No they will not patent this. The work was done by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute that is funded (unsurprisingly) by the Wellcome Trust which is a big medical research charity. The Sanger Institute releases all of its research into the public domain.
Many years ago when I worked as a postman, anyone delivering mail had to sign the Official Secrets Act. I doubt couriers would normally sign it so their ability to carry restricted mail would be restricted.I'm pretty sure restricted marked info can be sent in the Royal Mail (but not all couriers strangely enough)
I'm sure the lovely folk of Hendon will be delighted by your comment.
All the permanent Security Council members (USA, UK, France, Russia and China) have broken or ignored UN resolutions over the years, as have many other countries for good reasons and bad.
I think the UN is generally a good thing, but it does come up with questionable policies from time to time. This is one of those times. There is no reason for the UN to get involved in the cloning debate at this stage. If individual countries want to encourage or ban cloning, then it should be up to them. This is not really a global matter.
In theory the company I work for have locked down Unix and NT systems.
However all the development teams know the root passwords for both systems and use them freely.
IT knows about this. In fact in quietly keeps the developers supplied with passwords. They long ago worked out that giving programmers control over their own machines leads to a much quiter life.
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