Your primary assumption is FALSE.
Different bacteria, and different strains of the same bacteria, have varying resistance to all types of countermeasures. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:17 AM > To: Jim Murray > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [funsec] Slightly icky new biometric > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:59:10 -0000, Jim Murray said: > > > Seems a somewhat dubious biometric to me. Wouldn't simply putting > your > > hands in bleach (or similarly strong bug-killing solution) be enough > > to significantly change the makeup of bacteria there? > > The problem is that bleach will kill all the little bugs fairly evenly, > so 99% of *everything* dies off. There's still plenty of those oddball > genome bugs left over for identification purposes. If your bacteria > mix was 42% A, 17% B, and small amounts of of statistically rare C, E, > and J, then after the bleach you'll still have roughly that same mix. > And if after bleach they find a keyboard that's got lots of A, a bit of > B, and traces of C, E, and J, that may not be enough to convict you, > but it's probably good enough to hang a search warrant on. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
