first human "infected with computer virus"

This is the future of terrorism.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10158517.stm

that would make for a great sci fi novel, awesome article

i wouldn't say he is infected with the virus, moreso that he is infecting other synthetic computers with his implanted chip.

just a little semantics. the chip isn't interfacing at all with this guys body.

that's how i read it too, I totally had this ghost in the shell imagery of having your brain hacked.

This made me chuckle:

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Professor Rafael Capurro of the Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute of Information Ethics in Germany told BBC News that the research was "interesting".

Where is our Hiro Protagonist when we need him?

lol

  On 5/26/2010 at 8:17 PM, disparaissant said:

that would make for a great sci fi novel, awesome article

surely it's been done though...

yeah, but he's not infected with a virus at all - he's just got a virus infected RF transmitter under his skin.

  On 5/26/2010 at 8:20 PM, theSun said:

the chip isn't interfacing at all with this guys body.

  On 5/26/2010 at 8:30 PM, baph said:

Where is our Hiro Protagonist when we need him?

as soon as i saw the thread title, i was like..... Snow Crash......

Is the chip interfacing with his body at all?

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:09 PM, theSun said:

  On 5/26/2010 at 8:20 PM, theSun said:

the chip isn't interfacing at all with this guys body.

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:13 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

Is the chip interfacing with his body at all?

i heard it wasn't

theSun, as usual, you're missing the point. These chips can be infected at distance:

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"If someone can get online access to your implant, it could be serious," he said.

If these implants support important human functions such as

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medical devices such as pacemakers and cochlear implants

or in a somewhat distant future

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someone's memory or their IQ

which you may benefit from, that is, important body functions, then being able to infect these implants at distance is dangerous.

theSun hasn't missed the point at all

since i miss the point so often i wish you could halp me out bro

i get that you can fuck up someones micro chip if you can communicate with it. this is basic shit. if i make my chip talk to yours i can hack into it and make it do whatever i want.

a pacemaker does interface with your body. in that respect, you could go an fuck up someone pacemaker with this doohickey, but is that really "infecting" someone with a computer virus? i'd say no.

also if you want to network your pacemaker there is an obvious inherent danger at giving someone else control of it.

quick question... is the chip interfacing at all with this guys body?

I too was thinking about Snow Crash

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:53 PM, theSun said:

 

a pacemaker does interface with your body. in that respect, you could go an fuck up someone pacemaker with this doohickey, but is that really "infecting" someone with a computer virus? i'd say no.

your semantic point was obvious, but it has no importance for the result. The result being that if someone infects your pacemaker, you can die.

Of course, a chip is not your body, but if it is inside your body and functions as a vital constituent (like an organ), then one can assume you are infected with a computer virus. Saying something like "noooo, it's the chip that is infected" won't do much difference.

  On 5/26/2010 at 9:11 PM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 5/26/2010 at 8:30 PM, baph said:

Where is our Hiro Protagonist when we need him?

 

as soon as i saw the thread title, i was like..... Snow Crash......

lol, yeah me too

i don't think we're disagreeing, i'm just saying that this guy is basically doing an exercise in logic. not exactly cutting edge stuff until we actually start to see networked chips that control bodily functions. even then it's relatively easy to lock down shit that needs to be static and don't give everyone write access.

I'm with theSun on this

BUT HIS BODY,

IS IT BEING INTERFACED WITH?

When I was little my grandma told me to be careful using the computer, because I could get a virus from it.