[extropy-chat] Warwick: Could future computer viruses infecth umans?

[nsjacobus at yahoo.com]

Certainly. Again, it would depend totally on how the interface works. 
If the interface has the ability to "interpret" biological data and 
then to dynamically generate an appropriate code version of the 
bio-data, then one could imagine that a biological virus could be 
interpreted/compiled into some bizarre message/code etc on the computer 
side thus resulting in a virus.

-nj

On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:35 AM, Walter_Chen at compal.com wrote:

Human virus could cause flu, VD, ...etc.
Difficult to imagine what will happen to computers if infected?
 
Thanks.
 
Walter.
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Why not? It would obviously depend a lot on the nature of the interface 
itself. If the interface is sufficiently general so as to be able to 
dynamically generate code, why not?



  Pretty cool, if you ask me. Ever read Cory Doctorow's short story 
"0wnz0red" ? If not, please do: 
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/28/0wnz0red/.



  Cheers

  NJ



  On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:03 PM, Walter_Chen at compal.com wrote:



  So human virus will infect computers also?



Thanks.


Walter.

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Why not? A virus, whether biological or computer-based, is really just

a logic machine. Such a virus would be able to cross from a digital

logic medium to a  biological one. The effects of such a virus would

differ depending on whether the virus is currently infecting a

biological-system or a computer, but this is very much like biological

viruses when they pass across species.





On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:51 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:



--- nsjacobus at yahoo.com wrote:

 > Well, I think the idea is that eventually

 > computer/human interfaces

 > will consist of some sort of data-port that connects

 > directly into the

 > human nervous system. If so, then computer viruses

 > could indeed have a

 > deleterious effect on humans.



Yes, but this is not "computer viruses and biological

viruses becoming one and the same" even if they can

affect the same target.

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