Imagine an entire genetically-engineered ecosystem hiding malware in its DNA, a malignant garden you’re not meant to decode.
Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack …pic.twitter.com/agJfnpJJnI
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or somebody smuggling state secrets in genetically engineered plants - no laptop or USB drive required
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This is the sci fi future I always dreamed of
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Even better yet, encoded in a strand of hair..left in the hairbrush in the travel case
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Isn't all bad. Sounds like a way to end the forthcoming robot subjugation of humanity. If my interpretation of action movies is correct, the Saviour carrying the viral sequence will be a mute pre-teen girl, most likely with a pair of pet ferrets.
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I was waiting for a Little Bobby Tables joke!
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You waited for long, my tweet is 8 monthd old :)
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Sanitize your inputs, people!
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Practice safe seqs
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^^^ Under appreciated tweet.
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the researchers actually modified the machine’s software to make the hack possible, writing in the vulnerability before exploiting it…pic.twitter.com/BYAcTKZefl
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IOW, they proved that it was possible for a gene sequencing program to have such flaws.
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this applies to any data entered into any parser, I don't think anything new was learned from doing this.
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