den Otter wrote:
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Hardly. With a database of every citizens DNA, the authorities can convict
anyone they want of any crime they want now. Sequence up some of your DNA
and sprinkle it around a crime scene. With computer technologies they can
fabricate whatever photographic or video evidence they wish.
> > From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>
> > > From: "my inner geek" <geek@ifeden.com>
> >
> > >A universal identification system based on DNA would be enough to
> > >provide a very high level of peace time security.
>
> > It's funny you mentioned this today, just last night on "48 hours"
> > they had a piece about national level coordination between states
> > that take DNA samples from prisoners. A Florida serial rapist was
> > caught by his sample from a Virginia database.
>
> Yes, *of course* it makes perfect sense to index every citizen's
> DNA and fingerprints (and fortunately this is likely to happen
> sooner or later). The potential risks are truly insignificant compared
> to the enormous benefits. Of course, the same goes for national
> surveillance systems (with databanks) etc. Plain old common
> sense...I've never really understood the paranoia that seems to
> grip many people when this subject comes up; it takes *a lot
> more* to get "1984".
Mike Lorrey