With growing power and capabilities of individuals the only thing that really stands between us and disasters of any kind (physical, social, environmental, ...)

With growing power and capabilities of individuals the only thing that really stands between us and disasters of any kind (physical, social, environmental, ...) is the utter incompetence and lack of creativity of bad actors. (This is not meant to say that this guy is bad, in fact neither he nor the content of the article matter at all. The only necessary context is that a single person decided to do what a group of top-notch researchers considered as maybe a bad idea.)