Hacking Sequencers with Malware of Synthetic DNA; Scary
December 19, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
Today’s science-fiction can become tomorrow’s breakthroughs or its nightmares. The piece describes such a bad dream where a malicious actor synthesizes DNA that encodes digital malware intended to disable sequencing machines and computers as it spreads through a large network. This may not be “an imminent threat” as one expert supposes, but that’s how all surprises happen. MORE
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