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How Hackers Could Trick Unwitting Scientists Into Producing Dangerous Genes – Gizmodo
In a new letter to the editor pulled from the prestigious scientific journal Nature, a team of Israeli researchers pose a frankly wild-sounding question: could…
In a new letter to the editor pulled from the prestigious scientific journal Nature, a team of Israeli researchers pose a frankly wild-sounding question: could a computer hack result in a scientist being swindled into creating a piece of genetic code thats harmfulor potentially toxicrather than helpful?
The answer seems to be yes, albeit with some pretty weighty caveats. The end-to-end cyberbiological attack described above requires some lackluster cybersecurity chops from both sides of the genetic…
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