Yeah this is kind of on me going to mcdonalds for my fix. It's a real gamble but sometimes the coffee is fine. I refuse to pay starbucks prices though those mf's are insane.
And in actuality if they (cops, fbi, etc) really want your DNA it's extremely easy to get from any "discarded material" of yours. But that does cut down on the steps they have to take if they can just download the 23andme database.
Yeah I think about it like, the level of data you can already correlate from everyone's online footprint is going to start getting paired against their DNA. And there's no way in hell that we don't find a bunch of extremely obvious trends based on this. Probably even things that we would never imagine go together. I'm not a biologist at all but I am a nerd and I know that someone smarter than me is already trying to map this data together to see if there's anything interesting. ESPECIALLY since there's money to be made from knowing this.
You gotta be nuts to submit your dna to a private company to catalogue. Not only will there be leaks, but I'm sure if the cops say "Hey we need these DNA records to confirm something", 23andme isn't going to say "No thank you officers!" The implications of dna sequences becoming privatized itself is a weird thing to think about.
@feld The only thing I use it for at this point is to play random music, I don't even watch videos on any topic on youtube anymore. It's all the same bullshit.
Also they can cross reference possible relatives to find you. I listen to a lot of true crime stuff and it's actually wild how far we've come in just 40 years. Like the game has changed so fucking hard for preserving evidence and what you can get from it. Then again almost everyone is carrying a tracking device on them at all times so it's pretty damn obvious to find out if someone did something bad. And if you didn't bring it when doing your crime? Automatically suspicious (assuming you always have it on you).
This is on my long list of things I think about if I wanted to really go live in a woods and not be found. It gets harder every year and I do think it might become impossible in my lifetime. I'm not about to go wander aimlessly in the bush ranting about Linux like Luke Smith, but I would like to live in a world where that's an option.
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