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Why go so high-tech with fake DNA? Just take an actual DNA sample of your intended stalking horse (e.g. their saliva) and place it in the crime scene.
by cousin_it 17y ago
Why go so high-tech with fake DNA? Just take an actual DNA sample of your intended stalking horse (e.g. their saliva) and place it in the crime scene.
- jacquesm 17y agoFor that you need access, for this trick all you need is access to the data, which will be in some database somewhere waiting to be 'lost'. Just a couple of hours ago there was this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797655 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797655 link which argues that is perfectly ok to share your genetic data. Genetic data is currently used in two different ways, on the 'consumer' end of the spectrum there are services like 23andme and a whole bunch of others that deal with 'markers', genetic configuration bits if you will. These markers are unique, but not as unique as your genome would be. On the other 'end' is your full genome, all 4 billion plus base pairs of it. Your full genome would allow an imposter to create evidence that would match exactly from data alone. It's like manufactured diamonds vs 'real' ones. They're both real, in fact the manufactured ones are usually identified because they are 'too good'. Once you reach that stage it is not too far fetched to imagine that someone would be able to fool the tests (according to the article based on 'methylation') that currently distinguish 'real' dna from 'fake' dna.