X-Message-Number: 20635
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:33:40 -0500
From: Stephen Ritger <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20627
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>The big problem I see with all this is one of identifcation, when
>you want to collect. Even if you show up in a body cloned from
>the original, will your prints and your retinal pattern still be
>the same? Are they the same in identical twins? What, if you
>show up as a construct of some kind? --- Passwords; will you
>remember? Write it down? --- Just let me know, what it is, and I
>will collect your fortune for you. :^ A good incentive to
>mess up your revival :(
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Identification should be no problem.  A DNA sample from your cloned body 
would be sufficient.  Nano-repair robots could also encode an identity 
string in part of your "junk" DNA.  This, combined with rigorous 
chain-of-custody of your biological material and good INFOSEC policy 
regarding your identity coding (perhaps a molecular version of PGP) 
would be more than adequate to ensure proper identification of cloned 
hosts for reanimated brains.  Legal strictures could handle anything 
that slips through the technology net.

Just my .02...

Steve

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