LE is now using family genealogy web sight data to look for criminals

doublejj

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Police used open-sourced data collected from family genealogy web sights to crack decades old murder case in California. DNA was freely submitted and used by law enforcement to look for marker matches. If you used a DNA genealogy sight to look up you're ancestors, you've ratted out all of your relatives for generations to come...
 
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Singlemalt

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What cracks me up is that many folks seem to think DNA is immutable; "they found his DNA there so it must be him". With replication and sequencing from a tiny original sample, a bad actor could have a bottle of it and frame someone for anything wished; kill a person in New York and in LA at the same time and splash your dude's DNA at both scenes(even though he is in London). Guarantee he'd go through months, maybe years of hell trying to prove his innocence.
 

whitebb2727

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What cracks me up is that many folks seem to think DNA is immutable; "they found his DNA there so it must be him". With replication and sequencing from a tiny original sample, a bad actor could have a bottle of it and frame someone for anything wished; kill a person in New York and in LA at the same time and splash your dude's DNA at both scenes(even though he is in London). Guarantee he'd go through months, maybe years of hell trying to prove his innocence.
Happens all the time I bet.
 
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