I believe that the bullet point is meant to illustrate that silly things can be easily put into your genetics, therefore it is also easy to put in malicious thi

I believe that the bullet point is meant to illustrate that silly things can be easily put into your genetics, therefore it is also easy to put in malicious things. The BRCA1 gene being an example of a malicious set of genetic code [0]. In addition to harm to the person whose genes may be edited in the future, you can then modify the genes sent into the companies so that they can hack the companies. I'd imagine that pulling a 'Jimmy DROP TABLE Reads);' [1] is not something that the machines are QA'd against. Also, if you were to use the databases of these companies as a 'storage' for future comparisons, nothing is stopping anyone from putting strange stuff into your digital representation of the code. Essentially, the companies aren't doing QA on their genes and they should. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA1 [1] https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/