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by devinjflick 2412 days ago
That may not be enough.

>Asked if there was evidence the database had already faced concerted attacks, scraping, or scanning, Rogers said, “I don’t want to get into it.”

>“Not that I am aware of,” he added. “I don’t know.”

>Rogers declined to comment on whether he’d been approached by national security officials about the site.

Good luck trying to destroy a digital record at this point.

Edit, Referenced: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614642/dna-database-gedma...

1 comments

He's already been busted lying about providing access when it was against policy. After being in the bad position of not having a policy for police requests, he set a policy then almost immediately broke it.

I think policy was only for a murder, and he personally approved access for a non-lethal stabbing, or something similar.