What's the genetic equivalent of a credit monitoring service?

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Genealogy sites have already suffered data breaches in the past, and more are sure to be coming in the future. Any data that gets collected will eventually be breached.

Clumsiness and crookedness don't mix

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If you're robbing a place, it might be a good idea to know which exits will actually allow you to exit so you don't face plant into one of them.

The gavel is mightier than the checkbox

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Your privacy preferences (perhaps we should start calling them preferences instead of settings, since they really only express what outcomes we would prefer not what actually happens) don't trump a court order or a search warrant. If the authorities are part of your threat model, relying on a checkbox isn't going to do you any good.

Don't you dare sneeze on me, human

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It sounds absurd, I know, but if they can encode malware into a DNA strand then, by the strangeness of computer science, there exists (at least in theory) a computer that would interpret my DNA as a virus, and another (theoretical) computer that would interpret your DNA as a virus, and so on and so forth.

For each sequence of symbols there exists a Turing machine for which that sequence is a virus.