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It seems like there would be a massive attacker bias in multiple ways. Defenders need consent, attacker does not. Defenders have to work with the human body, attackers only have to break it. Defenders have to stick to the law, which may prevent them from releasing anything at all, attackers do not. And so on. I would not surprised if the attacker's task is a hundred times easier here.
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I guess any virus that is super destructive is probably not something that can spread very far as it kills its hosts beforehand ?

Yep, you'd want to put it on a timer. Optimally trigger it off some natural event, maybe temperature, so it can achieve universal penetration before activating.

Sounds a little bit sci-fi I don't think there is any viruses that exist that are just triggered off temperature ?

I mean I don't know, I'm not a biologist. But existing viruses are not optimized for sneaky mass deaths.



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