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smallmancontrov 34 minutes ago

The legit synthesis sites have been scanning and authorizing since before the internet was encrypted. You suggested otherwise, demibabs expressed surprise, and was correct to express surprise because your implication was incorrect.

The black market exists -- but comes with black market problems.

estearum 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

If that's the understanding you came away with, it was clarified in my immediately following comment.

Glad we agree that there are labs that will solve very hard parts of creating a novel virus, either by accident or by negligence.

smallmancontrov 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

It was dishonest then for you to imply that readily accessible commercial labs didn't take reasonable precautions and it's dishonest now, too.

estearum 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

Can you describe specifically what is "reasonable precautions" as far as labs detecting novel pathogens sent to them?