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If they search the entire population then there should be 1000s of matches. I think they're smart enough not to incarcerate based on DNA alone.
by randyrand 11y ago
If they search the entire population then there should be 1000s of matches.
I think they're smart enough not to incarcerate based on DNA alone.
- cortesoft 11y agoYou would think... but the FBI and US Marshals visit this house repeatedly because it shows up as the location for unknown IP addresses (http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...). So, even if 1000s of people aren't being incarcerated, I can see those 1000s of people being severely inconvenienced. They could be questioned and harassed, and even if you are completely innocent, it is easy to mess up and accidentally incriminate yourself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc)
- tzs 11y ago> If they search the entire population then there should be 1000s of matches. Is that still true? I recall that in the early days of DNA fingerprinting there would be many people in the world that matched a given sample (although I think it was maybe dozens, not thousands...), but I thought that they were now testing more loci, narrowing it down much much more.