(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A British scientist has become the first human to be infected with a computer virus.

Dr Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading, has had a computer chip implanted in his hand.

The chip is programmed to open security doors to his lab - and ensure only he is able to switch on and use his mobile phone.

But Dr Gasson deliberately infected the chip with a computer virus, which was then automatically transmitted to the lab security system.

"Once the system is infected, anybody accessing the building with their passcard would be infected too," he told Sky News.

The virus on his chip is benign. But malicious computer code could give criminals access to a building.

Dr Gasson says his experiment also exposes the vulnerability of chips now routinely implanted in patients.

Heart pacemakers contain mini-computers that control the heartbeat, and communicate with doctors via a special reader held against the skin.

But if a virus was transmitted to the device which stopped it working properly, the consequences for the patient could be fatal.

"The devices will have to start to use security encryption," said Dr Gasson.

"Medical devices should have some kind of password protection as well. They're basic security precautions. It's surprising these devices don't have them already."

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Wow. That was actually pretty cool

LOL computers will be taking over people now.

Why did he put the virus on the chip?

I should download H1N1 in a USB chip, then shove it secretly in someones anal canal, See if they get killed.

TERMINATOR RUN!:O I sense the apocalypse is near.

That's actually pretty cool. Good to know if the Government wants to plant chips in everyone to track them, to get off the Grid we can just infect the chip. lol

nice find m8

O god.. the computer's are taking over the peoples world.... O wait it has already been done lol

To prove a point.