- A PubMed paper (PMID 24092765) was requested via paperbot, but the actual content of the paper is not discussed in the log.  
- Participants criticized the Wilson Center/SynBio Project report “7 Myths of DIYbio” (PDF link provided), arguing that its claim that “there are no anonymous biohackers” is flawed because the study only sampled known groups and therefore missed individuals who avoid public visibility and law-enforcement contact.  
- The term “DIYbio movement” was debated; it was noted that the phrase is most closely associated with the founders of diybio.org (Mac Cowell and Jason Bobe).  
- Tencent’s announcement of 10 TB of free cloud storage was discussed, with speculation that the offer is economically viable through massive-scale deduplication and the assumption that few users will actually consume the full quota.  
- A University of Virginia paper on privacy-preserving biometric authentication was shared (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/pubs/passat2011/); it describes techniques to lower-bound remaining entropy after query-response exchanges and to prevent leakage of individual secret bits when using distance functions such as Hamming distance.