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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by Crontab on Saturday August 19, 2023 @10:35PM (#37195525)
I have wondered if there are matches between different people in DNA databases and, if so, how often is happens.
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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by scheme271 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:17AM (#37196084)
Depends on the lengths of the sequences being compared but the birthday problem indicates that it's more common than you'd expect.
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Re:Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush... by tomatocracy on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:52AM (#37198646)
At the very least there will be identical multiple births in some of them.
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