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    Off the hook...

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    Re: Off the hook...

    I don't think it's worrying.

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    Re: Off the hook...

    I do

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    Re: Off the hook...

    I'm fairly indifferent.

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    Re: Off the hook...

    Difficult to judge on the basis of a newspaper article, but if the technique offers a credible defence to someone who may otherwise be guilty of a serious crime, it is worrying, and if the technique could be used to undermine an otherwise credible defence of someone accused of a crime, but otherwise innocent, that is even more worrying.

    It could also open up a case for challenge convictions based in whole (or part) on DNA evidence, and again it raises the question the validity of retaining DNA profiles of people who have not been convicted of any crime.
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    Re: Off the hook...

    I'm worried about teams of rogue biologist setting me up for crimes I didn't commit. I just don't have the same tenacity as the A-Team, I'm not sure I could deal with it!
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    Re: Off the hook...

    What worries me is all the appeals we are going to get for crimes based upon this new turn of events...
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    Re: Off the hook...

    Quote Originally Posted by nightkhaos View Post
    What worries me is all the appeals we are going to get for crimes based upon this new turn of events...
    If you were going to plant evidence that someone was somewhere then you'd just use actual hair or saliva from that person. The fact that you can create your own fake saliva is not going to change that. Evidence planting is already considered as part of the process.

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    Re: Off the hook...

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    If you were going to plant evidence that someone was somewhere then you'd just use actual hair or saliva from that person. The fact that you can create your own fake saliva is not going to change that. Evidence planting is already considered as part of the process.
    We know this, but it isn't gonna stop people with incompetent lawyers from trying now is it?
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    Re: Off the hook...

    Jury's are notoursouly bad at understanding statistics, then there is the legal concil which all too often is completely inept too.

    Saying its a 1 in a Million chance. This is not like playing the lottery, its a LOT more probable. Its akin to saying there are 60 people in this country that this could possibly be, this type of understanding is often diliberately avoided, and the low end legal deffense have no idea how to construct their cases.
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    It is worrying, if it didn't take a team of top biologists to be able to produce the results. If it gets to the point that a back street lab can produce the same results, it's at that point it becomes worrying.

    It's like all "proof of concepts", once you can do something the hard way, eventually it'll be made easier but the worry shouldn't kick in on a "just because"

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    Re: Off the hook...

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    If you were going to plant evidence that someone was somewhere then you'd just use actual hair or saliva from that person. The fact that you can create your own fake saliva is not going to change that. Evidence planting is already considered as part of the process.
    The difference here is that the DNA sample of blood or saliva can be created without ever having to meet that person, all you need is access to their DNA record and you manufacture a sample of saliva with their DNA.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    It is worrying, if it didn't take a team of top biologists to be able to produce the results. If it gets to the point that a back street lab can produce the same results, it's at that point it becomes worrying.

    It's like all "proof of concepts", once you can do something the hard way, eventually it'll be made easier but the worry shouldn't kick in on a "just because"
    Well, the more simple method (requires a small sample, rather than just the DNA record) could be done by any biology undergraduate acording to the article, not exactly requiring a team of experts, I can think of 4 friends right away that fit this position.
    I don't mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious, but I am so that's the way it comes out.

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    what worries me is all the crappy "whodunnit" "thriller" and "tech crime" novels and films based on this info that we will be forced to endure over the next few years now

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    Classic stuff Dareos... my sig needs that...
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    Re: Off the hook...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mblaster View Post
    The difference here is that the DNA sample of blood or saliva can be created without ever having to meet that person, all you need is access to their DNA record
    It'd be easier to just meet them.

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    Re: Off the hook...

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    It'd be easier to just meet them.
    Although more difficult to then claim you have never met them/left the country/seen this man before in my life M'Lud.

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