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To make a deadly virus, you need just a degree in bioengineering and about $1M of equipment; the information is readily available. If you are on the cheap side, you can source the equipment nearly free on lab clearance sales etc. It is 2024. Children do their first genetic engineering projects in _high school_. You can buy a CRISPR kit _right now_ for about $150.

This horse has sailed long ago.



That is not even remotely true for a novel viral sequence that would be very dangerous.

And funny that we have gone from “nothing is more dangerous than the atomic bomb” to “anyone with a bio degree and 1 million is more dangerous than the atomic bomb”


> That is not even remotely true for a novel viral sequence that would be very dangerous.

We don't need fully novel sequences. The original Spanish Flu strain sequence is published and well known. And you can always modify existing ones with known aspects (e.g. as in this infamous paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC114026/). And yes, it is more difficult to build an atomic bomb, as materials are thankfully expensive and difficult to obtain.




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