Sony Patents DNA Tracking

[Guild McCommunist]

Or we can think positively for once.

If someone steals your account, they can get your password but they can't get your fucking DNA.

Or imagine having a device that remembers your account by remembering you. Keeping DNA data stored on a network so when you do something as simple as grasp a friend's controller to play a multiplayer game, it instantly logs you in and adjusts to your settings.

That's pretty fucking neat.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Or we can think positively for once.

If someone steals your account, they can get your password but they can't get your fucking DNA.

Or imagine having a device that remembers your account by remembering you. Keeping DNA data stored on a network so when you do something as simple as grasp a friend's controller to play a multiplayer game, it instantly logs you in and adjusts to your settings.

That's pretty fucking neat.

Until someone hacks PSN again and gets access to a database of DNA.



Or something like that.

 

[weavile001]

if piracy ends, half of the gamers would die...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

if piracy ends, half of the gamers would die...

Wait... What?

 

[Hop2089]

Or we can think positively for once.

If someone steals your account, they can get your password but they can't get your fucking DNA.

Or imagine having a device that remembers your account by remembering you. Keeping DNA data stored on a network so when you do something as simple as grasp a friend's controller to play a multiplayer game, it instantly logs you in and adjusts to your settings.

That's pretty fucking neat.

Until someone hacks PSN again and gets access to a database of DNA.



Or something like that.

DNA data stored on plain text now that would really suck, it could happen as well but not likely.

if piracy ends, half of the gamers would die...

It will be a while before that happens, all 3 consoles got hacked and the next will be harder, take longer, but still will be hacked eventually however Piracy isn't dying due to anti-piracy, it's dying due to the large filesizes of BDs.

 

[Foxi4]

DNA data stored on plain text now that would really suck, it could happen as well but not likely.

Are you concerned that some mad scientist will hack SEN and create a clone based on your genetic information?

 

[stomp_442]

Hackers download my DNA data, and worse yet, post it on the open net, no thank you sony.

 

[Hop2089]

DNA data stored on plain text now that would really suck, it could happen as well but not likely.

Are you concerned that some mad scientist will hack SEN and create a clone based on your genetic information?

Yeah, I want a clone of myself but I want to make sure it's not used in horrible experiments or is used for evil means, just keep it safe and release it upon my death so I can live on.

 

[Foxi4]

Yeah, I want a clone of myself but I want to make sure it's not used in horrible experiments or is used for evil means, just keep it safe and release it upon my death so I can live on.

Rest assured, that's not going to happen.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Hackers download my DNA data, and worse yet, post it on the open net, no thank you sony.

Just change your DNA!

 

[Deleted member 194275]

I'm not a patent lawyer but for what I read on the process on the link, it will be very difficult to use this patent on the court. The "invention" covers biometric inputs and devices (and accounts) associations. At least on Brazilian law, and I believe that on USA law is the same, you cant protect the rights of relations between thing that you don't own. It is the same of putting a patent on passwords.

I don't know if I was clear enough, but some years ago, a Japanese company put a patent on a jungle fruit called "Açaí". This patent was not recognized, as you cant patent a product that belong to the nature. They did a second attempt, put a patent on frozen pulp of "Açaí", and they fail again because they could not put a patent on a free process (the process of froze things for example). So I think that we have a similar case here. Sony do not own the biometric reorganization processes (maybe own some, but not all of them), and do not own the DNA, for example.

(as we have so many boring guys here, here is one source of the Açaí stuff, http://www.infoescola.com/biologia/biopirataria/ )

 

[DiscostewSM]

Or we can think positively for once.

Ok, who are you, and what you done with the real Guild??

 

[Foxi4]

Until someone hacks PSN again and gets access to a database of DNA.

And does *what* with it? For about 99,999% of the population, this data is as useless as it gets, and I sincerely doubt that Doctor Moreau has any business at all on PSN.

 

[Clarky]

Or we can think positively for once.

Ok, who are you, and what you done with the real Guild??

It's the clone Sony made from his Vita

 

[Foxi4]

Now, I'm more interested in the use of fingerprints, purely due to latency issues mentioned before in the thread, but regardless of which method they'd use, Guild's idea is pretty good. It can be used in a variety of ways. Imagine it as a method of banning cheaters in Multiplayer games. Person uses cheats? Bang - fingerprint/DNA sequence banned or suspended. Regardless of whether or not said person will create a new account or play on a different system, the cheater won't be able to play until the ban or suspension period passes. Perfect way to clean the servers.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Until someone hacks PSN again and gets access to a database of DNA.

And does *what* with it? For about 99,999% of the population, this data is as useless as it gets, and I sincerely doubt that Doctor Moreau has any business at all on PSN.

Privacy? Your DNA (fingerprints more-so) can be used for identifying you which might not be desirable in the wrong hands.

 

[stomp_442]

Hackers download my DNA data, and worse yet, post it on the open net, no thank you sony.

Just change your DNA!

good idea, I'll use my dogs DNA.

 

[Foxi4]

Privacy? Your DNA (fingerprints more-so) can be used for identifying you which might not be desirable in the wrong hands.

You don't seem to get it. They're not collecting your actual DNA sample and sending it on a charriot pulled by unicorns - it's in digital form, merely a signature.

If you expect anyone to have the proper equipment to compile your DNA from a digital format into a piece of tissue, I'm afraid we're not quite there yet.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

As security risks rise, so should security rise to the task of keeping data and hardware safe. This might very well be a patent to develop a dedicated line of hardware and software for the defense and high security sectors of government and high profile private companies.

No reason to believe this will be applied to anything at the consumer level.

 

[Geren]

If someone can find and link that photo of PS3 games being handcuffed to a Sony agent that makes sure you won't do anything bad I will give you a internet.

I guess is this one :