[Gllug] Biometrics?

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:58:37AM +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
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> The amount of data in the whole genome is vast, so they don't store that.
> Instead they use what amounts to a hash function.

Quite. This means that there are a surprising number of hash collisions.
This fact appears to be quietly ignored by the police and courts.

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