[Cryptography] Sandia storing information in encrypted DNA

[Henry Baker]

FYI --

https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/dna_storage/

Sandia storing information securely in DNA

Sandia researchers explore a biologically inspired information storage system

George Bachand, a Sandia National Laboratories bioengineer at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, is exploring a better, more permanent method for ***encrypting*** and storing sensitive data: DNA.  Compared to digital and analog information storage, DNA is more compact and durable and never becomes obsolete.  Readable DNA was extracted from the 600,000-year-old remains of a horse found in the Yukon.
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What happens when we're all "end2end" encrypted?

Gives a whole new meaning to "messing around with my junk (DNA)"...

What's a repressive govt like Putin's, May's, Feinstein's, Comey's, Vance's, to do?