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My analysis is that it looks plausible and not really surprising if one knows a little bit about molecular biology. The extension of this is that one could find a vulnerability (buffer overflow maybe) in one of the software used by gene analysts that can be used by the injected DNA to infiltrate a PC.


It would be extremely surprising if any exploit could be triggered by a particular valid DNA sequence (which it would have to be to be able to be sequenced/synthesised).




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