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But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.
by clusterfish 6y ago
But you can't do that to a million people, only to individual targets. Economic scale matters in a lot of evil plots.
- oh_sigh 6y agoWhat could you do to a million or a billion people that would make life a nightmare for them if their biometric data was stolen en masse?
- bkanber 6y agoMy concern is not what can be done today, but rather in 15 years.
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- victor9000 6y agoDiscriminate against them based on medical conditions, persecute them based on "impurities" (think Hitler & Jews or China & Uyghurs), make them targets of fishing expeditions for unsolved crimes, etc.
- ComodoHacker 6y agoJust wait until these fancy "smart" coffee cups with built-in nano-labs become ubiquitous.
- mirimir 6y agoBefore that happens, I'm guessing that full DNA sequencing at birth will be a legal requirement. Like footprints are now.
- alcover 6y agoHolly... You're right. This will happen. To an over-arching state this is the ultimate modus. INSERT INTO Citizen(dob,ssn) VALUES 2030-10-28, sha(atgcaatgcatcgc..)
- kzrdude 6y agohashing (sha) is not very appropriate since you're not likely to ever reproduce exactly the same base pair sequence for the same person.
- a_bonobo 6y agoIf we have nano-labs then we can also have nano-obfuscation-labs to protect our privacy - randomly mutate or CRISPR any DNA we shed