Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by clusterfish on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:35PM
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But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by ComodoHacker on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:33AM
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Just wait until these fancy "smart" coffee cups with built-in nano-labs become ubiquitous.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by a_bonobo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:28AM
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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
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by mirimir on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:20AM
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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.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by alcover on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:24AM
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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..)
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by kzrdude on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:35PM
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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.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by oh_sigh on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:37PM
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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?
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by bkanber on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:43PM
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My concern is not what can be done today, but rather in 15 years.
Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma...
by victor9000 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:28AM
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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.
There's no practical way to protect our genomes in meatspace. We're constantly shedding DNA into the environment. Hair, skin, saliva, etc. For example, an adversary can just tail us to a coffee shop or restaurant, and take a utensil or straw or napkin that we've used. And then submit the sample using a fake name, as investigators often do.
Edit: Those are excellent comments about scale. But generally, if you don't want to publicize your genomic data, just don't send in a sample.