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estearumyesterday at 5:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

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...


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smallmancontrovyesterday at 6:45 PM

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?

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