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clusterfish
on July 23, 2020
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Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles ...
But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.
ComodoHacker
on July 23, 2020
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Just wait until these fancy "smart" coffee cups with built-in nano-labs become ubiquitous.
a_bonobo
on July 23, 2020
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If we have nano-labs then we can also have nano-obfuscation-labs to protect our privacy - randomly mutate or CRISPR any DNA we shed
mirimir
on July 23, 2020
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Before that happens, I'm guessing that full DNA sequencing at birth will be a legal requirement. Like footprints are now.
alcover
on July 23, 2020
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Holly... You're right. This will happen. To an over-arching state this is the ultimate modus.
INSERT INTO Citizen(dob,ssn) VALUES 2030-10-28, sha(atgcaatgcatcgc..)
kzrdude
on July 24, 2020
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hashing (sha) is not very appropriate since you're not likely to ever reproduce exactly the same base pair sequence for the same person.
oh_sigh
on July 23, 2020
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What could you do to a million or a billion people that would make life a nightmare for them if their biometric data was stolen en masse?
bkanber
on July 23, 2020
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My concern is not what can be done
today
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victor9000
on July 23, 2020
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Discriminate against them based on medical conditions, persecute them based on "impurities" (think Hitler & Jews or China & Uyghurs), make them targets of fishing expeditions for unsolved crimes, etc.
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