Man infects self with computer virus
In a further sign that our world’s galloping toward a Cronenbergian future, University of Reading professor, Mark Gasson, “contaminated” a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand. Gasson’s pre-viral hand allowed him exclusive access to his lab and cellphone.
Once infected, though, his hand could pass along the virus to whatever device that next scanned the chip. If other chips had been wired into, or tapping, Gasson’s system, they too would have been corrupted. A conversation with Gasson follows below:
(via MisterHonk)
