[HN Gopher] Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of pop...
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       Spreading deadly pathogens under the disguise of popular music
        
       Author : robinhouston
       Score  : 67 points
       Date   : 2022-10-26 19:08 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | GuB-42 wrote:
       | Alternative title: "Music that make biolabs not suck"
        
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       | SevenNation wrote:
       | The description doesn't seem to include what kind of popular
       | music works best for conveyance and stealth. I'd like to listen
       | to the music to hear what the attack sounds like and how hard to
       | detect it is.
       | 
       | This also raises the question of whether existing, unaltered,
       | popular music might be might be usable in such an attack.
       | 
       | It also makes me wonder where else DPS are used as a crucial
       | security component.
        
       | bigbacaloa wrote:
        
         | folli wrote:
         | Did your comment receive any funding?
        
       | mach1ne wrote:
       | This is Stuxnet-like stuff which really reminds how out-of-world
       | creations humans can come up with.
        
         | sterlind wrote:
         | sophisticated tradecraft has this air of magic to it. it's
         | subtle and it fools you, it breaks our abstraction of "this
         | device does X" by making it do Y, exploiting the details of the
         | mechanism we gloss over.
         | 
         | another example is the Pegasus spyware, which surreptitiously
         | assembled a Turing machine out of PDF decompression logic in
         | iMessage. or the Thing, an old Soviet bug with no electronics,
         | just passive bits of metal that reflect and modulate an RF
         | beam.
         | 
         | there's probably many more examples of clever tricks that
         | stayed secret, and are forgotten to time.
        
       | klyrs wrote:
       | This is an excellent reproduction of [the concept behind] Tesla's
       | infamous earthquake machine. If you can make it resonate, you can
       | destroy it.
        
       | permo-w wrote:
       | the paranoid in me was expecting the article to be about the
       | cultural memes and images that can be projected into a mind
       | through catchy lyrics
        
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         | yurymik wrote:
         | There Is No Antimemetics Division.
        
         | giantg2 wrote:
         | Social contagion of things like suicide is a real phenomenon.
         | That was my first thought as well, except "pathogens" doesn't
         | exactly fit.
        
           | lampshades wrote:
           | I'll probably get banned for it but I believe transgenderism
           | is a social contagion. It spreads among friend groups of
           | young people quickly due to social pressures (it seems to me)
           | and the number of people who subscribe to it are rapidly
           | increasing. All this is possibly fine if it weren't for the
           | fact that it's self destructive and encourages self
           | mutilation.
        
             | gsk22 wrote:
             | How does this opinion contribute positively to the
             | discussion at hand? It feels like an excuse to just
             | shoehorn in your hot take.
        
               | lampshades wrote:
               | I commented in a comment thread about social contagions.
               | Whether my take is hot or not should be irrelevant.
        
             | BaculumMeumEst wrote:
             | Is that opinion based on speaking with transgender people
             | you know personally, or things you read on the internet?
        
               | lampshades wrote:
               | I work in tech, so both.
        
             | avgcorrection wrote:
             | You're gonna have to explain this. People want to become
             | the opposite gender because of peer pressure?
        
               | booleandilemma wrote:
               | I've read that obesity is socially contagious, but I've
               | never heard of anyone wanting to be obese.
        
       | alexmolas wrote:
       | solution: playing music and sing isn't allowed on NPR
        
         | pessimizer wrote:
         | They need jazz and classical music in order to continue to be
         | named in the wills of octogenarians.
        
           | yamtaddle wrote:
           | I wanna know how they're getting _so many_ cars donated that
           | it 's worth devoting so damn much airtime to begging me to
           | give them my car. I guess it must be working but I can't wrap
           | my mind around _how_.
        
             | CharlesW wrote:
             | "[NPR station] WAMU in Washington, D.C., raised a net $1
             | million annually from vehicle donations over the past four
             | years, according to Walt Gillette, development director.
             | The proceeds outpaced the $850,000 generated by WAMU's
             | workplace giving program in fiscal 2012."
             | 
             | https://current.org/2013/07/donated-cars-bring-big-bucks-
             | to-... (2013)
        
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