Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by slg on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:27PM
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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
This is the "encryption should be illegal because I have nothing to hide" level of argumentation.