CRISPR fears are really overrated. It is nowhere near as mature as it needs to be. Further, you're less likely to make anything useful with it and more likely to just kill the organism you are trying to create. I work in a biotech lab, and we hardly ever use it and instead opt for manual plasmid knock in/down or tissue engineering techniques instead. The extent of work you have to put in to actually get something useful from CRISPER is prohibitive of it being used to target you and I.
I assume you are correct. I also assume you and I are somewhat safe. You have to consider the likely hood of an individual getting a hold of one of these devices in the near future. Then again you really have to ask if there is any reason you in particular will be targeted by someone with this technology.
I'm not sure I follow. A brute force attack generates a key which can then be tested against the target. This isn't magic, in fact, the more detailed answer above made the same argument essentially. Thought they provide a different argument suggesting that it may be possible to increase the ability to guess keys correctly.
Can you elaborate more? In what sense? They are certainly vulnerable if you compromise the system which has them saved. Are they vulnerable to a brute force breach? Likely not, brute force is always a slow process, no matter how you speed it up. Is X vulnerable should always be phrased as Is X vulnerable to Y.
That's a very valid point. I was more confused by the point he was trying to make when he suggested that front-line medical workers are being less in demand however. In that respect, I was being vague, not the author. They directly mentioned that primary care workers are dying, which is demonstrably false.
Front-line/primary care providers in Canada at least are among one of the most in demand members of the work force. Look at the nurse shortage for example. If you get yourself a degree in nursing, you are almost guaranteed a job. If I look at members of my generation that I know who are employed VS not, I struggle to find any who majored in a professional health program (excluding premedical programs which are non-professional programs) who were not working in their field almost immediately after graduation.
In comparison, I know of a handful of people who graduated from highly in demand engineering programs and are entirely unemployed. As in, no job what so ever. Many also are not employed in their area.
While I support this in theory, the news source looks less than credible. On another article they suggest that medical professionals as well as IT professionals were becoming "dead career fields" which is very odd.If you look at hiring statistics in the latter at the very least, you will see that this is somewhat alarmist.