Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by clusterfish on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:35PM (#23923931)

But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by ComodoHacker on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:33AM (#23924440)

Just wait until these fancy "smart" coffee cups with built-in nano-labs become ubiquitous.

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by a_bonobo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:28AM (#23925004)

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

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by mirimir on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:20AM (#23924680)

Before that happens, I'm guessing that full DNA sequencing at birth will be a legal requirement. Like footprints are now.

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by alcover on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:24AM (#23926155)

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..)

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by kzrdude on Friday July 24, 2020 @01:35PM (#23942243)

hashing (sha) is not very appropriate since you're not likely to ever reproduce exactly the same base pair sequence for the same person.

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by oh_sigh on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:37PM (#23923934)

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?

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by bkanber on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:43PM (#23923966)

My concern is not what can be done today, but rather in 15 years.

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Re:Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a ma... by victor9000 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:28AM (#23924418)

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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