RE: What Will We Do With Innocent People's DNA?
Damian Gerow wrote:
Thus spake Tyler Durden (camera_lumina@hotmail.com) [22/03/05 16:12]: : Easy to see where that's headed: : : 1. Joe Cypherpunk is doing 54 on Rt 95. : 2. "Cops" (or guys in a black car claiming to be local cops) stop Joe, make : arrest based on "speeding" or what have you. : 3. Cops take DNA sample. : 4. 2 weeks later Noam Chomsky is murdered. : 5. Hey! Joe Cypherpunk's DNA has been found all over the scene of the crime. : 6. Joe Cypherpunk is executed...that bastard! Murdering such a valued : member of society....MIT professor and all that. Papers report that : Cypherpunk Joe had once tried to become an MIT professor but never got on : the tenure track. Clearly, he had a vendetta.
Uh-oh. Does this mean that my tinfoil hat isn't good enough anymore? Will I have to don a complete neoprene suit to make sure I leave no trace of myself anywhere from now on?
Go watch GATTACA (excellent movie) for this scenario. Peter Trei
Thus spake Trei, Peter (ptrei@rsasecurity.com) [23/03/05 09:38]: : > Uh-oh. Does this mean that my tinfoil hat isn't good enough : > anymore? Will : > I have to don a complete neoprene suit to make sure I leave : > no trace of : > myself anywhere from now on? : : Go watch GATTACA (excellent movie) for this scenario. Yeah, but he eventually got found, didn't he?
The simplest solution is to systematically spread one's DNA everywhere, thus making 'discovery' of it meaningless. end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
The simplest solution is to systematically spread one's DNA everywhere, thus making 'discovery' of it meaningless.
Yes, this is what I've been endeavoring to do, but my potential partners don't seem to understand the urgency. -TD
participants (4)
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Damian Gerow
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Morlock Elloi
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Trei, Peter
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Tyler Durden