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Researcher Infects Himself With Computer Virus
By admin | May 28, 2010
Researcher Infects Himself With Computer Virus
Ever since Mark Gasson got a virus, his cellphone won’t work, and he can’t unlock the door to his building on campus. But those are the kind of symptoms humans can expect when they get infected with computer viruses.
Mr. Gasson, a research fellow at the University of Reading, in England, has a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in his hand. It’s the kind of computer chip that is sometimes used to track animals, but Mr. Gasson uses it to activate his cellphone and
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