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We're already there, but it's not 15 minutes. You can buy bio-hacking equipment fairly cheap (maybe not allowance cheap, but "Hey, mom, dad, can you buy me a ch

by eksith 14y ago

We're already there, but it's not 15 minutes. You can buy bio-hacking equipment fairly cheap (maybe not allowance cheap, but "Hey, mom, dad, can you buy me a chemistry set?" cheap) including those used for DNA replication. I don't know how well they've tightened specimens for scientific study, but there was a scandal not too long ago where anyone who bothers to fill out paperwork could order anthrax and smallpox for research purposes from a lab.

jrkelly 14y ago
> but there was a scandal not too long ago where anyone who bothers to fill out paperwork could order anthrax and smallpox for research purposes from a lab. There's lots of problems in this post. But the idea that anyone could "order smallpox" is totally false. A journalist synthesized 1 gene from smallpox which is the scandal you were referring to. 1 gene != smallpox.