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Brits' DNA data sent to military base after 'foreign' hack attacks – report

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Re: "100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair"...

After over 70 years I'd guess that my medical records could be matched to me even if ‘anonymised’.

Which regular commentard am I?

You have an easy problem: there are only a few tens of us to choose from, and our writing patterns surely have less entropy than the genome. Identifying me from this post must be at least a few million times easier than identifying you from a genetic database.

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