How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database(scientificamerican.com)
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How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-almost-anyone-in-a-consumer-gene-database/
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To be "fair", their latest revision of the paper includes some figures from a 4 year out of date version of CRAM, which is an improvement on the 10 year old outdated format they used initially. ;-)
Disclaimer, that's my blog and I'm the primary author of the newer version of CRAM.
Disclaimer, that's my blog and I'm the primary author of the newer version of CRAM.
I recommend anyone interested in genome exploits to watch this talk at DEFCON by John Sotos[1] about why you should be very hesitant in giving away your DNA.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY
I'd heard about that talk before but never watched it – scary stuff! Many thanks for sharing the URL.
See also previous discussion about this topic from 12 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18195827 (60 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18195827 (60 comments)
>New techniques ... may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard
I strongly disagree.
>He suggested it might be wise to encrypt genetic data to protect personal information.
Maybe we can encrypt DNA molecules themselves! Check out GeneInfoSec
I strongly disagree.
>He suggested it might be wise to encrypt genetic data to protect personal information.
Maybe we can encrypt DNA molecules themselves! Check out GeneInfoSec
>> New techniques ... may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard
> I strongly disagree.
Can you please share why?
> I strongly disagree.
Can you please share why?
Also there's already a compressed data format called CRAM for this that has some traction and for which MPEG conveniently failed to compare itself to in their paper.