On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Maybe, but it seems like offense just got a boost. Passive biodefenses don't work against an active offense. If sniffers start landing on your skin and taking a microscopic sample, then they won't be trivial to defend against.
Biology can't help leaking bits, it's riddled with multiple fingerprints. The only way to make sure is to rent a random telepresence box, the control flow being routed through realtime traffic remixers. By the time you have litte gadgets buzzing around who're after your DNA or volatile MHC fragments we'll surely have these. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3