On swine flu:
It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.
Original source: an interesting piece comparing the flu virus to a computer virus, and on hacking H1N1:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=353
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