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Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by lm28469 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:42AM (#38086583)
> Considering we leave our DNA basically everywhere we spend more than a few moments, it seems like a rather impossible task to keep it secret anyway.

This is the "encryption should be illegal because I have nothing to hide" level of argumentation.

Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons... by slg on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:27PM (#38087357)
No it isn't. I never said anything about making hiding DNA illegal, just that it is impractical. If you want to map it onto cryptography, I'm making the rubber-hose cryptanalysis argument[1][2]. People are worried about some evil entity going through proper channels for their evilness when there are more blunt and direct ways to get what they want.

[1] - https://xkcd.com/538/ [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis