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Or the converse of this, malicious DNA has been used to exploit sequencing computers. (https://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/ https://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/) I s
by taylorfinley 7y ago
Or the converse of this, malicious DNA has been used to exploit sequencing computers. (https://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/ https://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/)
I swear I heard Mikki Hypponen talk of a self-replicating version of this that exploited the sequencers to encode the exploit into other sequenced DNA, making this self-replicating, but I can't find a link.
- mattkrause 7y agoThe DNA-based attack was a little contrived. They deliberately introduced a vulnerability into a post-processing tool, then generated a DNA sequence that abused it. It’s a creative idea but it would be fairly difficult find and use exploits in the wild. Sequencing has gotten a lot cheaper but it’s still going to cost tens-to-thousands of dollars per attempt, so you can’t do the genomic equivalent of packet stuffing on the cheap. (Nevertheless, it is true that a lot of biology-related code is not great but...)