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Why exactly? Did you watch Gattaca and think to yourself: "That is the type of world I want to live in!" It just seems like there is some small chance that s

• toomuchtodo 13y ago
  I believe that my DNA "data" is intrinsically insecure; pop cans, hairs I leave just from being in a spot, etc. If someone wants me genome, it is fairly trivially for them to obtain it; I believe the benefits of sequencing outweigh the risks.
  • pfisch 13y ago
    That is like saying your bank info is insecure because you shred it and throw it away. It is one thing for someone to steal your hair and run a somewhat expensive genome sequencing on it. It is another to have it already sequenced and stored in an internet accessible database in a easy to read file format next to all of the other relevant data I would want. Of course this is stored next to thousands or millions of other already sequenced genomes that are also in the correct format and accessible without me even leaving this chair. My email address or credit card info generally doesn't get stolen from my shredded trash. It gets stolen from a 3rd party database chock full of tons of other emails making it a goldmine for people who want email addresses/credit card numbers.
    • toomuchtodo 13y ago
      Like I said, I'm not worried about it. My DNA is already publicly available as part of the Personal Genome Project: https://www.personalgenomes.org/ https://www.personalgenomes.org/