> For example, I do genealogy as a hobby, and figuring out how person A was re > lated to person B 100 years ago would involve trips to the town in question > , and poring over a hand-kept records book in the town hall. These days, t > here are a number of websites that have brought that sort of information on > line. The information from old town record book is essentially unchanged, > but the ability to access it is dramatically easier. Such easy access enab > les all sorts of cross-referencing and data mining across multiple database > s that were (strictly speaking) possible a hundred years ago, but also extr > emely unrealistic.
The "23andme.com" folks claim that their genetic screening thing is liberating people by connecting them to relatives that they did not know they had. I, for one, have a lot of relatives that I don't want to know. --dan -------- This message is certified orthogonal to the topic of gnupg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
