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Consider this creepy altrnative: You have a drink at a bar. Stranger swabs it, or steals the glass, collects DNA, sends it in, now triangulates who you are from
by braythwayt 9y ago
Consider this creepy altrnative: You have a drink at a bar. Stranger swabs it, or steals the glass, collects DNA, sends it in, now triangulates who you are from your relatives.
I don't know if it's that easy, but something like this may become possible.
- coldtea 9y ago>Consider this creepy altrnative: You have a drink at a bar. Stranger swabs it, or steals the glass, collects DNA, sends it in, now triangulates who you are from your relatives. Sure, but following you would be much easier. Why go through all the trouble (AND live an online trace).
- gnode 9y ago> an online trace Maybe in the future leaked DNA sequence databases will be available, downloadable, and searchable by criminals without a third party. If so, this would actually be less likely to create evidence than following them.
- hrasyid 9y agoIf they have your paternal relatives and your maternal relatives, that pretty much just leaves you and your siblings, right? *Unless there are other marriages between your mom's and dad's families
- nkrisc 9y agoThey've probably got your finger prints too as a bonus.
- ChrisBland 9y agoIf you are up against someone or a state that wants this info, you can't really stop them. They could get your credit card info from the bar, follow you home, hack your phone, socially engineer anyone around you to find that out.