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RE: CICADA 3301 | An Exclusive Look At Who Could Be Behind The Internets Most Mysterious Puzzle
The problem with their approach is that biometrics (of which genetic info falls into), are just a password that you can never change, but which is instantly disclosed to the entire world. I've read what they've written and I don't see that they've bothered to address this problem. Same with Humaniq.
Remember, a biometric is just the result of a set of inputs from sensors. If you can fake that input, you can completely bypass any sort of biometric.
To my mind, a lot of these guys have big ideas, but no real clue about how weak biometrics actually are and thus, how weak their security actually is.
Never thought about that, feel kind of foolish now but that is a great point.
I ran over this when looking into it some more. Seems there are viable ways to counter this:
https://www.scribd.com/document/333701765/Fake-Biometric-v-2
Yes I totally agree. From the look of it they have spent quite a few years researching and putting this concept together. I guess the have thought about this weakness.
From what I gather they actually want to use the A G T C to encrypt data somehow. It's definitely an interesting concept that I think we will see more ideas like this in the future.