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I am not an expert in computer science, but I am currently a cybersecurity and computer networking operations major, I’m not very far in so my knowledge is limited but I do have a basic understanding of how malware works.

You cannot code malware onto a bone, that is not how computers work, and it’s not how malware works. There is more than one type of malware and they all work differently but there is not a single type of malware that could be coded onto a bone.

Malware can be hidden in an image file, this is entirely possible but not the way that it happened in Bones. Angela did not download anything to her computer that could have had a virus hidden in it. When Angela scanned the images of the bone into her computer, she created a brand new image file with a picture of code in it. A picture of code cannot harm your computer. I could print out the code for a virus, scan it into my computer, and make it my desktop background and absolutely nothing would happen because it’s not actually code. It’s no more harmful than a picture of a kitten.

The suspension of disbelief on the possibility of what Pelant does is not difficult for someone who doesn’t know about the way that malware works but once you understand even the basics it very quickly falls apart.

The one very unlikely possibility is that Pelant somehow wrote a QR code of sorts into the bone that led Angela’s computer to download and execute a file. I do not believe that is the case though, as for Angela’s computer to automatically open QR codes automatically download whatever without even checking for a confirmation, and automatically run anything downloaded without checking, would require awful cybersecurity on her machine.

Considering that Angela is shown to be proficient in computer science and how advanced her computer is supposed to be, I refuse to believe that she could be that stupid and have a computer that just downloaded anything it was promoted to download without some type of check. She works with the federal government, there is no way her system could be that insecure.