A UK researcher claims to be the first person in the world to be be infected with a computer virus.

"Technically, the chip Mark Gasson inserted into his hand is infected, which one could argue keeps the virus limited to the domain of the chip even though it lives inside the man," writes CNET News' Elizabeth Armstrong Moore. "But Gasson, of the University of Reading's School of Systems Engineering, suggests this argument is immaterial because he is demonstrating that increasingly sophisticated medical implants will become vulnerable to computer viruses."

"The chip Gasson implanted into his left hand in 2009 is a high-end radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag similar to those implanted in pets, and it enables him to access his cell phone and his university building as well as be tracked and profiled," Moore writes. "When he infected the chip with a virus, it corrupted the communication system, and could have easily spread to other implants had any been connected to this system."

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