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> right around the corner from DNA being writable
Why bother when it's trivial to copy existing DNA? The evildoer just needs to get a tiny sample from someone who'd made a decent frame.
Sure, then you've got the problem of how to create a DNA-bearing artifact that'll fool forensics -- a spilled puddle of pure chromosomes would be weird -- but that'd be true in either case.
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This is already here: https://www.forensicmag.com/news/2015/02/dna-evidence-can-be...
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Another nightmare, it's already possible to create convincing audio samples of someone else's voice that can be used for framing. I'm sure believable, fake video footage is around the corner too. Then what? You can create fake audio/video of anyone committing crimes. Or it can be used to fabricate an alibi for someone who is actually guilty. Not sure where we go after that. Maybe back to the time before audio/video technology was invented and rely solely on witness testimony.
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DNA has long lost its aura of invincibility.
A partial or even complete match is not enough to convict anyone.
๐คbayesian_horse๐6y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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That sounds like something nation states would be able to do well before it's acknowledged.
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The real nightmare is that we might be right around the corner from DNA being writable to the extent that you could make mock DNA to plant at a crime-scene/evidence-locker, and there might be a couple awkward decades where the courts believe the FBI when they claim to have found DNA matches (just like that time they systematically pretended they could identify hairs, and convicted people of murder based on hairs that were literally from dogs in some cases). We'll catch on eventually if they try it, but it would suck for those of us convicted on falsified evidence. I wouldn't be so paranoid about that possibility if they hadn't lied about the dog hairs for decades.