Define "reasonable precautions"?
Here's a red team exercise where researchers successfully bought fragments of the best known pathogen in the world, never mind a novel one.
What reasonable precautions failed to catch this but we could expect to catch a novel virus that "kinda looks like" a known virus?
https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-syn...
So shredding, mutating, and reassembling the genome is the minimum bar to slip it past the scanning? I thought you said you could just order it?