If you haven't heard the phrase "utility-scale molecular sensing" or given it any thought, please prepare to update every opinion you might have about bioterrorism, and ask Keltar how the MR1 is our greatest plausible non-authoritarian line of defense. www.molecularreality.com Keltar is the little green guy in the upper left.

I don't see it as much different from what we have today.

Nowadays I am pretty sure that a bad actor with enough money get their hands on strains of really bad stuff since many labs created those to do research. With enough $$$ I bet you can get their hands on them and then release them.

Perhaps, the only difference I see is that it could give you the possibility to (at least in the beginning) to somewhat target the spread. However, given enough mutations it is very likely you go back to an uncontrolled pandemic and so there is no difference from what someone could achieve today.

Additionally, IMHO, getting the blueprint in how to build your protein and then make it so that existing virus/bacteria can produce it, carry it, ... sounds harder and costlier than bribing someone to get something out of said labs.

Oh and don't get an account it's broken right now, I'm building the site and hardly anyone has been there yet and the Auth0 is fucked up. But just give your email to Keltar if you wanna followup.

LMAO this is some low effort LLM

How could you say that when you didn't chat with it at all?

There are already easier ways to do bioterrorism if you are thinking a virus that kills a lot of people.

it would be like committing terrorism using silicon wafers

you would have to infiltrate an extremely guarded facility

you would somehow have to bypass QA

its not like somebody on the assembly line for a new protein drug sprinkles a dose of PCP

one potential dual use could be somebody modifying a popular fruit with birds and then droppin seeds at the local organic farm fair

and then when those seeds are consumed by birds they produce poop dangerous for other animals to consume

you could absolutely screw around with the ecosystem, like whoever has access to this programmable "bio-wafer" will be able to play god totally undetected.

the problem is that "bio-wafer" manufacturing process will be very tough and regulated like the CNC machines used to manufacture jet engines depriving certain countries from being able to churn out their own jet engines

Its not regulated if a government does it.