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Re:Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software by mylons on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:39AM (#14990073)
lol, this is such a bad article -- and kind of a stupid experiment. nobody is arbitrarily executing pieces of dna as code in a computer.
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Re:Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software by empath75 on Friday August 11, 2017 @11:11AM (#14990442)
it was a simulated buffer overflow, they weren't just executing DNA sequences.
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