Man infects himself with computer virus

Reported so many times:

This is exactly the sort of story I hope HN can avoid as it grows in popularity; silly, overblown, and worst of all technically uninteresting. Let your local TV evening news cover this stuff; keep it off HN.

I couldn't agree with you more, it's been hyped to irritating levels. The most obvious response is: "No, he didn't." If I cut open my leg and put an infected laptop hard drive inside it, that equally does not make me infected.

It should be noted that this story comes from Reading University, home of Kevin Warwick, whose real talents seem to be less with cybernetics and more with PR. Searching The Register gives a decent breakdown of his stunts over the years:

http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=kevin+warwick

We reported it, but we followed up with a counterpoint: http://news.techworld.com/security/3224836/human-computer-vi...

In a not so distant future I can see viruses infecting pace makers and numerous other RFID human aids.

Of couse, by this point governments will be pushing for mandatory chipping of all new born babies and children.