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Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus
- harrybr 16y agoA sensationalist write up for PR purposes. It's just a common RFID tag, much like the kind we use for pets. The fact that this guy implanted it under his own skin is inconsequential.
- DanHulton 16y agoInconsequential to us, but I guarantee I'll be hearing about it from my mother.
- wendroid 16y agoWas the first thing I got sent this morning. You've got to be pretty stupid to do this : S: any RFIDs around with code for me to execute C: sure, here's some 0x1fab214bab3421baeb3f2d287d20d8297d2 S: Thank yo ... Connection reset by peer
- sp332 16y agoDon't run this, just put it in a .txt file and run a virus scanner on it: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* OK, it's actually harmless, but it's the only pure-ASCII executable I've ever seen, which is pretty cool.
- wendroid 16y agosee also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381127 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1381127
- sp332 16y agoI think http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html is a better link for that
- wendroid 16y agoInteresting read but > That it be a normal DOS program capable of producing the same results under WINDOWS as well as real DOS mode. so it's pretty useless to me
- sesqu 16y agoI'm not so sure about that. All you need is a bit of buffer overrun, reflection, or poor escaping mechanisms - and none of those are exactly rare. Here's a 2006 article on RFID+buffer overflow tat wikipedia pointed me at: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6386.ars http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6386.ars
- cosmohh 16y agoSure, the way he does it is sensationalist, but I still like his concept of infecting RFID system by just "carrying" around a malicious RFID tag.
- jonp 16y agoHe's a colleague of Kevin Warwick, someone who a former tutor of mine described as "a buffoon with a good line in hoodwinking the media into thinking that what he is doing is cutting-edge science". (http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/09/38467?currentPage=all#ixzz0p3YjwY67 http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2000/09/38467?cu...)
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoAlso covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379909 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379909 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379834 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379834
- jgrahamc 16y agoBollocks brought to you by the University behind: http://blog.jgc.org/2006/12/midas-number-or-why-divide-by-zero.html http://blog.jgc.org/2006/12/midas-number-or-why-divide-by-ze...