Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria 164
Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."
Not secure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not secure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm more interested... (Score:4, Funny)
It's what happens when you store your spell-checking software into 1 gram of bacteria.
So that mean (Score:5, Funny)
Bateria? Holy Data Storage Batman (Score:5, Funny)
Bateria?
Was the research funded by Bruce Wayne
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
My anti-virus software just deleted all my data!
My Windows computer has been infected! Go buy another 2TB hard drive, I'm running out of space at an exponential rate!
In Soviet Russia, bacteria infects your data!
The Bacteria Protection Agency is up in arms!
Hello nerds. Look at your keyboard, now back to me, now back at your keyboard, now back to me. Sadly, it's infected with bacteria, but if you stopped washing your hands, it could be a lot worst. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re still at your desk reading this shit. What’s on your hand, back at me. I have it, the solution to your storage problems. Look again, the bacteria are now data. Anything is possible when you stop bathing. I’m a trojan horse.
etc.
Re:I'm more interested... (Score:4, Funny)
It's where the bats eat lunch?
Re:Not secure (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Funny (Score:3, Funny)
Except, ironically, now your comment will be tagged interesting/informative.
You just foiled your own prediction.
Re:I'm more interested... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sorry professor, my roomate ate my homework (Score:2, Funny)
I had it stored on my brand-new crash-proof bio-Raid 5 array. But Smokey scored a big bag of weed last night, got the hungry and thought the bio-drives were blocks of ice cream I'd forgotten to put away. He tossed them in the freezer and ate 'em with chocolate sauce. I guess crash-proof, isn't munchy-proof.
I can help... (Score:3, Funny)
I think I've heard that quote before... (Score:4, Funny)
Can we just clear something up (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I think I've heard that quote before... (Score:4, Funny)
That can be a hella expensive form of storage. Both maintenance and upgrade costs will just kill you.
Re:Not secure (Score:3, Funny)
Great - yet another confusing unit of measure (Score:5, Funny)
Now we've got three meanings for GB:
1GB = 10^9
1GB = 2^30
1GB = 1 Gram Bacteria
When will the madness end!?
Re:Not secure (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Can we just clear something up (Score:3, Funny)
Problems and Benefits... (Score:2, Funny)
Problem: Sneezing, and losing your entire collection of pornography.
Benefit: My offsite backup facility is now a brothel.
"There is no aspect of computing which does not, in some way, relate to sex."
Re:Tagged "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" (Score:1, Funny)
Little Bobby Tables, we call him.
Is this secure? (Score:2, Funny)
Anyone else see a security problem in opening a PDF from some source in China?
Viruses of tomorrow (Score:2, Funny)
Warning! McAfee and Symantec have reported a new computer virus that is spreading widely over internet and snail mail. Actually it is not a virus, but an antibiotic, which will kill all your hard drive bacteria.
Security companies are working hand-on-hand with hard drive manufacturers for injecting the N-1 gene into the affected bacteria, with the hope of making them resistant to the virus or antibiotics, depending on how you want to call it. The medical community is getting nuts with the new definitions, and some people have even compared them to the Gb vs Gib war. There has also been discussion regarding the potential dangers of such bacteria mutating into a self-aware being. Oh wait, never mind. Please, every one move to SSD storage ASAP