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BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION DE MODO. "Countries using biometrics include: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Gambia, Germany, India, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States. Among low-middle income countries, roughly 1.2 billion people have already received identification through a biometric identification program."" " http://lnkd.in/dKfqXT8 View in LinkedIn

HACKABLE BIOMETRIC SECURITY. "DNA will be used for identification and authentication, meaning that access to DNA databases will enable identity-related crimes." Biometrics is only as good as the security of the database of identities. Even the Israeli biometric database is considered by experts to be hackable." " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi http://lnkd.in/dqPJci8 View in LinkedIn

PHISHING ANALOGY FOR DNA. "A more sophisticated variant of spam, phishing, seeks surreptitiously to co-opt user login and other confidential information ... that mimic legitimate organisations' websites. Users typically receive official-looking emails that purport to come from their banks or other financial institutions with a link that clicks through to a criminal website. This encourages users to enter their valuable login details ... nearly 500 million phishing emails are distributed every day."" " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

ID SPOOFING WITH DNA. "It is possible to fabricate DNA evidence. The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person. “You can just engineer a crime scene ... Any biology undergraduate could perform this.”" " http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18dna.html?_r=0 View in LinkedIn

ABANDONED DNA. “In general the idea is anything you intentionally relinquish to the public, to scavengers, in the garbage, is free for anyone,” said Elizabeth Joh, professor of law at the University of California Davis. This is true for your hard drive, your diary, your credit card statements—and it’s true for your DNA, regardless of whether you realize you’re casting it aside."" " http://lnkd.in/ddFuvrG View in LinkedIn

BIO-DIGITAL ACCESS. "Companies such as agribusiness giant Monsanto have developed "terminator seeds" -- plants which have been genetically engineered so that all harvests are sterile, unable to produce further crops. By genetically modifying the seeds, Monsanto -- and others -- have thus created the biological equivalent of digital-rights management." http://lnkd.in/dYDhn9N View in LinkedIn

SHELF LIFE OF DNA: 250 million years stability of DNA is the current record. On everyday objects "About a month to a million years, theoretically. The decay rate of DNA depends on the conditions of its storage and packaging. If a body is left out in the sun and rain, its DNA will be useful for testing for only a few weeks. If it’s buried a few feet below the ground, the DNA will last about 1,000 to 10,000 years. If it’s frozen in Antarctic ice, it could last a few hundred thousand years."" " http://lnkd.in/dzm8Jj2http://lnkd.in/dAAKehn View in LinkedIn

"COMPUTER VIRUSES" is a term that is in our everyday lexicon and amply illustrates how biological thinking and IT thinking are becoming one. As programmable life becomes the prevailing biological viewpoint, all living things become cybernetic. View in LinkedIn

DNA FROM KISS IDENTIFIES A CRIMINAL. "A French man admitted to a jewelry theft in Paris after DNA evidence from a kiss on a woman's cheek singled him out as the thief." Great example of the power of DNA forensics. " " http://lnkd.in/dTg2Fsk View in LinkedIn

SPAM AS A LIVING ORGANISM: "up until recently, most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living organism, hindering the development of effective tools and techniques to kill it." Spam evolves, lives in an ecosystem, and has genetic traits and markers. It is strangely wonderful to see a merger between biology and IT thinking and the ability to cross-learn. " " http://www.generation5.org/content/2004/KillSpam.asp View in LinkedIn