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It's probably not the juiciest target, but I could see intelligence agencies wanting it. Combine it with the OPM hack of all security clearances and you could i
by jonknee 8y ago
It's probably not the juiciest target, but I could see intelligence agencies wanting it. Combine it with the OPM hack of all security clearances and you could in theory use it to find family members of spies, people in high positions who have secret children, etc etc. Imagine if you had Trump's DNA and could then search a massive database to find out if he has any kids we don't know about...
- endorphone 8y agoIf intelligence agencies wanted DNA it seems remarkably easy for them to collect. We leave our DNA everywhere.
- jonknee 8y agoSure, but it would be a massive amount of work to go collect millions of samples and sequence them. Like how researchers are using the data to solve crimes, you need a large set of data to get good results out of. In my scenario you would collect the DNA of your target (say, Trump) and then use the 23andMe data to try and dig up dirt on relatives (say, his illegitimate children).