Man gets infected by computer virus
Mark Gasson, a University of Reading researcher has recently become the first known human being to be infected by a computer virus.
You might be wondering how such a thing could be possible. Humans infected by computer viruses?
The intentional experiment was performed as a way to illustrate how radio-frequency identification chips (RFID) can not only be vulnerable to viruses, but spread them as well. What Gasson did was contract the virus into a chip implanted in his hand which then passed into a laboratory computer. If allowed to propagate, it was determined the virus could have spread into other chips found in building access cards (LiveScience.com).
