Comment by LatteLazy

Comment by LatteLazy 10 months ago

This fixes the issue with leaks. But it creates a much worse issue: anyone can now sequence anyone else's DNA with zero oversight or privacy controls.

The film Gattaca covers how this could lead to a sort of night are society pretty well, I highly recommend it.

It also makes it much much harder to use the data for clinical research.

gizmondo 10 months ago

What prevents anyone from sequencing anyone else's DNA with the current system?

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duped 10 months ago

Nothing but terms and conditions of the website. That's how Paul Holes identified the Golden State Killer, he created a fake profile and sent in the DNA from a crime scene and worked backwards from the results to find a suspect.

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red-iron-pine 10 months ago

aye. fake emails aren't hard to come across. create a fake username and ID, and then claim the sample is you or your kid.

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tylervigen 10 months ago

OK, you send the company two random numbers. One an ID, and the other a unique encryption key to encrypt the results.

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nytesky 10 months ago

Great movie and I didn’t realize the title was composed of a nucleic acid sequence until like the 2020s!

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psychlops 10 months ago

Out of curiosity, how is this "much worse" than a breached honeypot of DNA information?

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