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"Someone creates a virus to delete or encode all your data that's stored in DNA secure storage. This then spreads and starts to encrypt the DNA sequence in a hu
by calgoo 8y ago
"Someone creates a virus to delete or encode all your data that's stored in DNA secure storage. This then spreads and starts to encrypt the DNA sequence in a humans body. A new step in computer malware happens where malware writers start modifying people and unless you pay the 100 bitcoin to unlock your DNA in 24 hours you are dead."
Its an interesting time to live in. On the one hand i love the push for all the new tech we are creating. However, at the same time, the old problems dont go away because we create new tools.
- Real_S 8y agoInteresting thoughts. Encrypting dna molecules is possible, but it probably wouldn't use a virus. Also, if your cell's DNA was changed like this, it would kill you very quickly, interfering with normal cellular function.
- jobigoud 8y agoA better strategy would be to target the gametes and encrypt these only. Now if you want to be unsterilized you have to pay. Maybe it could a contraceptive method.
- mr_toad 8y agoThis makes about as much sense as a computer virus that destroyed the entire OS of a machine it infected. It would never be able to propagate.
- staplers 8y agoUnless it propagates before the trigger is pulled
- thomasfedb 8y agoLots of examples of this in extant biology - kill genes and mechanisms for destroying cells and DNA that are vital to the survival of multicellular organisms such as humans.
- steve_musk 8y agoHave you heard of the Black Plague?