Security News > 2016 > May > The Fallibility of DNA Evidence (Schneier on Security)

This is a good summary article on the fallibility of DNA evidence. Most interesting to me are the parts on the proprietary algorithms used in DNA matching: William Thompson points out that Perlin has declined to make public the algorithm that drives the program. "You do have a black-box situation happening here," Thompson told me. "The data go in, and...

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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/the_fallibility.html