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Old 05-26-2010, 09:05 AM
 
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BBC News - First human 'infected with computer virus'
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Old 05-26-2010, 09:13 AM
 
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Quite a bit of hyperbole there. The man wasn't infected, he had a computer device in his skin that was able to pass along a virus to an external computer.

Its analogous to someone shoving an wifi-enabled laptop up their butt and passing a computer virus to their home PC.
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Old 05-26-2010, 10:33 AM
 
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From an intelligent reporting viewpoint that "headline" shows the writer of the article to be slightly below a newt on the IQ scale.
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Old 05-26-2010, 12:12 PM
 
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Yeah, at best you could call him a carrier, but he was not "infected".
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Old 05-26-2010, 12:31 PM
 
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Its analogous to someone shoving an wifi-enabled laptop up their butt and passing a computer virus to their home PC.
OUCH!
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