How many bits does it take to kill you?

pegr writes: Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Reverse Engineer, XBox hacker, and generally smart guy, muses over the H1N1/swine flu virus as only a reverse engineer can: "I now know how to modify the virus sequence to probably make it more deadly." Not that he would, of course. bunnie has consistantly made the esoteric available to us mere mortals, and his overview of the H1N1 virus is a fascinating read from a unique perspective.