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estearumtoday at 4:47 PM1 replyview on HN

https://www.genewiz.com/public/services/gene-synthesis/custo...

Distance from mailbox to live virus is a few days of bench work from a semi-competent biochemist.

And yes, this service claims to have safeguards. Does every service? Does every future analogous service? Are those safeguards guaranteed to be robust against totally novel pathogens?

Answers: No, no, and no.


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smallmancontrovtoday at 4:59 PM

Really? mRNA? What kind of meme nonsense is this? You really don't know anything about these protocols do you.

Still, even though your estimates are silly, they aren't silly enough to change the conclusion that this isn't a comforting security barrier, so I suppose we agree on that much.