Like Seat Belts and Airbags, 2FA Must Be Mandatory ASAP
DARKReading, Friday, February 16th, 2024
One of the worst hacks in history demonstrated that any online service must force its users to adopt at least two-factor authentication. This must be applied everywhere ASAP as a public safety measure.
One of the few pieces of information that is truly immutable and potentially invaluable is genetic information. We can't change our genome to any large degree. Unlike biometric data, which may be stored in any number of different algorithmic or hashed structures, genetic information can be invariably reduced to simple sequences of amino acid pairs. The nightmare scenario, then, is bad actors hacking a genetic database and getting access to the biological blueprints to large numbers of people.