Entries tagged with: Viruses
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Melancholia, the Game
Plague, Inc., by Ndemic Creations, is an iDevice game* with a simple story: you're a plague, and your goal is to wipe out the human race. As you spread, you accumulate "DNA" points allowing you to mutate, taking on traits...
Open Source Flu (updated)
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Topsight, April 8, 2009 (part II)
Read these: • Sid, not Andy: In the movie Toy Story, did you think that the neighbor kid, Sid -- the one that hacked different toys together, blew them up, and generally played with them "inappropriately" -- was the bad...
Viropiracy?
Here's a term to add to the jargon pile: Viral Sovereignty. This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia's minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations...
Frame Phishing
In late December of 2007, I wrote a post entitled "Malware for Materials," arguing that the increasing digital smarts of previous-dumb physical objects was a ripe medium for malicious software and spam. For the most part, malicious bits of code...
Paleovirology
Word of the Week: Paleovirology: The study of "fossil" viruses living in our cells as endogenous retroviruses. Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), like the more typical retroviruses such as HIV, rewrite the DNA of the cells they infect; the endogenous retroviruses do...
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