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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by acuozzo on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:19AM (#38531950)
> the focus should be on the prevention of asymmetric power imbalances in societal transactions

The rules governing social systems built to obscure the jungle (e.g., political, legal, and penal systems) can always be trumped by that which they were chosen to tame. This is the unfortunate reality of our wetware.

> the thing people actually care about is the risk of bad outcome, not the actual data itself

"Bad" is subjective, no?

Is it good or bad if a father learns that his teenage son is not his own?

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Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users by nulcow on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:00AM (#38532579)
> "Bad" is subjective, no? > Is it good or bad if a father learns that his teenage son is not his own?

I feel like that would depend on the person. If the father wanted to know and the son didn't, that would be good for one and bad for the other, and vice versa.

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