"This was all supposed to be done in secret." That's the difference and why this feels different, IMO. It's one thing for an agency to go around and interview

"This was all supposed to be done in secret." That's the difference and why this feels different, IMO. It's one thing for an agency to go around and interview subject matter experts and talk about ways things could happen and how to prevent them. It's another thing to just... setup such a bright and cheery webpage for everyone and so plainly state what they want people to do. It's also the fact that it's done in a way to leverage free labor- not that, if FBI agents were going to university professors, experts in biochem, etc, that they would be paying them... but, it would be done in a more structured, professional manner with agents putting in the work to sum things up and report back. This is just... it feels like getting the internet to do your homework. Your counterterrorism class homework. Maybe that actually is the best way to do it. But it still feels odd.