You can disguise a flash drive as pretty much anything these days: a credit card, a tube of lipstick, and even a human thumb for a literal thumb drive. But now, scientists have stored information as DNA sequences in 3D-printed versions of everyday objects, such as a bunny figurine and an inconspicuous pair of glasses.
“Let’s say that someone is thinking that you’re trying to take information out from a facility or from a border, and they capture you and screen all your electronic devices,” said Yaniv Erlich, the senior author of the study, which was published on Monday in the journal Nature Biotechnology. With this technology, you could conceal the information within a shirt button, he added.
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