Year: 2022

YOUR DNA on childhood letters, gifts, artifacts are your enduring legacy. We could of course sequence the DNA of Michelangelo from his personal writings and even recreate his progeny. View in LinkedIn

DNA OR GENE THEFT. "Great Britain criminalized the taking of DNA without consent in 2006 ... Australia's legislature debated a two year jail sentence for such theft in 2008. In the United States, eight states currently have criminal or civil prohibitions on such nonconsensual appropriation of genetic materials. Lawsuits against "gene snatchers" are permitted in Minnesota, New Hampshire and New Mexico. In jurisdictions where such nonconsentual taking of DNA is illegal, exceptions are generally made for law enforcement."" " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_theft View in LinkedIn

GOVERNMENT DNA DATABASES CAN BE HACKED as another source for biopiracy. "The international police agency Interpol listed 54 nations with national police DNA databases in 2009, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany and China. Brazil and India have since announced plans to join the club, and the United Arab Emirates intends to build the world's first database of an entire national population."" " http://lnkd.in/dZFiTvB View in LinkedIn

BIO-THEFT: a useful review from a legal perspective. " " http://lnkd.in/d5iUajf View in LinkedIn

BIO-CRIME THREAT. “Synthetic biology will lead to new forms of bioterrorism ... Bio-crime today is akin to computer crime in the early ’80s. Viruses and bacteria are manipulating the chemicals inside the human body and, by programming them to send the right agents into the brain, the bio-programmer potentially can take control over the victim’s behavior."" " http://lnkd.in/drDG2Sq View in LinkedIn

BIO-PIRACY."Drugs are likely to be an area ripe for biological piracy. As the field of synthetic biology progresses and therapies are developed to treat infectious diseases and cancers, people will clamour for these treatments. Organised crime will be there to provide pirated versions."" " http://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

CYBERCRIME IS LEADING INDICATOR FOR FUTURE BIOCRIME. "Chinese cybercriminals are increasingly targeting mobile users via a vast underground network of tools and services, according to a new report. The barriers to launching cybercriminal operations are less in number than ever. Toolkits are becoming more available and cheaper; some are even offered free of charge." Democratization and plummeting costs: sound familiar?" " http://lnkd.in/dcRTGeS View in LinkedIn

TAKING OVER YOUR LIFE: DO YOU MIND? "A world-spanning network of hijacked home routers has been uncovered by security researchers. The network involves more than 300,000 routers in homes and small businesses that have been taken over through loopholes in their core software. This would mean that the attackers could re-direct people to anywhere they wanted, inject their own adverts into web pages people visit or poison the search results they get."" " http://lnkd.in/d2MAN59 View in LinkedIn

LARGE SCALE CYBER ATTACKS will inevitably be mimicked by criminal life hackers. "Reports suggest that the attackers who planted malware on Target tills were scooping up card data for 19 days during the busy Christmas season. The thieves are believed to have got away with complete details for 40 million cards and stolen personal data on about 70 million customers. The attack is believed to have been one of the biggest retail cyber-attacks in history."" " http://lnkd.in/dU7Yz9y View in LinkedIn

IMMENSE SCALE OF INTERNET FRAUD is a specter of future biofraud. "A "treasure trove" of stolen personal details has been found on sale on black market websites, a security firm says. About 360 million account credentials including email addresses and passwords were reportedly uncovered. Hold Security said it had also found 1.25 billion email addresses without passwords."" " http://lnkd.in/d-njc3s View in LinkedIn