“Hacking Humans” is an article that introduces and explores the risks of Digitizing our data for the purpose of advancing science. This makes me ponder the potential uses for such high risk venture. Medically we can make great strides due to the fact that we can research humans on a grander scale. It would be akin to receiving a map to a location that was thought to be uncharted. In research for social sciences you can correlate what specific piece of your DNA affects your decision making and actions. Say for example your psychiatrist has your data and can track that your DNA has a part that makes you particularly more prone to being an alcoholic. While usually you would have to know about someone’s family history to gauge such a theory, it can be presented as clear as day for your psychiatrist to help you. This goes for most medical fields where knowing your family history leads to assumptions on your future health concerns. 

This however raises a lot of concerns like the article brings up. Giving companies and the government to have access to your DNA can be a huge cause for concern because anyone with malicious motives can use your DNA for personal gain. If the government has access to citizen data, a skilled hacker from a rival country can exploit this information as an act of cyber-terrorism. We have already seen countries like Russia shut down whole systems like when they used “Not Petya” to attack Ukraine. A use of citizens DNA is something on a scale bad enough to be included in the Geneva Conventions. Having access to such valuable data puts the people in charge of that data in a situation where if the data is compromised due to negligence than more severe punishments could befall those individuals. This prospect makes our field (Cybersecurity) much more valuable as innovations like Cyberbiosecurity became more of a mainstay in our daily lives.