Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. That may have changed but Tom Chatfield says it's time to reclaim the past.

Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. That may have changed but Tom Chatfield says it's time to reclaim the past.

But why would anyone want to hack a computer with a malicious DNA strand? The researchers who developed it argue an attacker could use it to hack any computer in the DNA sequencing pipeline.