the first human to be hit by a virus

dr garrison here is designing an ID chip for humans. such technology is already in the hands of animals care professionals and now hes taking a stab at it for humans.

as his own personal guinea pig he decided to generate a virus for this chip to view its effects. it was harmless to him physically but its effects could be carried to any devices it was intended to interact with as well as others id's if they were ever connected to a lan at any given time.

though he did it to himself this doctor is the first human to ever suffer from a computer virus (technically speaking)

he will continue his work though he has already made great leaps and bounds in potential and results.

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

Love the Dalek in the background :lol:

This is scary stuff.

It's the freakin' MARK, man! Creepy.

At least someone is considering some of the things that can go wrong with this kind of technology.

At least someone is considering some of the things that can go wrong with this kind of technology.

waxbytes

First off, we need to put this in perspective... It's not a computer virus that can affect humans directly. But rather, he managed to basically copy viral code to be stored on one of these chips. Devices that read the chip's data would then copy over the viral code, too. Thus, if compatible, it would 'infect' the computers that scanned it. If you think about it, this is a great revenge tactic for those that receive a 'chip' like this to pay back their 'benefactors'. I can already picture a terror-list who'd been chipped flashing their chip with viral code to attack as many OS's as possible so that every time s/he was 'scanned' in, it would brick the entire security system.[QUOTE="waxbytes"]

At least someone is considering some of the things that can go wrong with this kind of technology.

codezer0

As the old saying goes, many things can be made foolproof but nothing can be made idiot proof.