• wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I find myself waking up in an even stranger world than the one I left the night before.

    It’s one thing to understand that while surfing the Internet you expose yourself to being monitored, it’s quite another to take a walk around the park and have someone trying to ‘sniff out’ your movement and potentially your identity.

    Are there people who don’t really understand the implications of this?

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    1 year ago

    Really cool tech, I wonder if law enforcement could use it to detect a range of time someone has been at the scene of a crime based on the concentration of dna found. Could really help solve some crimes when you’ve got no leads.

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      Forensic sciences are in general a big scam used by prosecutors to put innocent people on jail. Hope this dosen’t become the new “hair evidence”.

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        There’s a big difference between DNA testing and things like “body language science,” and polygraph testing.

        Like a massive gulf.

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    Oh man. The Bigfoot hunters are gonna go nuts over this tech. Cryptozoologists too - there’s some recent supposed sightings of the Tasmanian Tiger that have been getting a lot of attention.

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      It sounds like it’s literally just catching hairs and things like that, though. We already knew we leave DNA samples everywhere, so that’s not more scary than DNA analysis already was.