Re: back yard gene hacking?

Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:f40ede10-7a9e-440a-86c3-
be88fc9c1ce8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Feb 6, 6:46 am, il...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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>> > Not too hard at all, with the right resources.  You don't even need
>> > gene hacking, just get your hands on samples of the 'Spanish Flu'.
 Or
> 
>> > Smallpox.  Or Plague (need fleas to spread that).
>>
>> Yes, what exactly are the "right resources" to get into the best
>> guarded biolab in Russia and get away with it? Keeping in mind Tsar
>> Vlad's area of expertise and likely priorities?
> 
> 
> Said resourcers being a suitcase full of money for bribes.  Lots of
> poor russian scientists looking for their next meal in exchange for a
> few flasks of smallpox.

I can believe radioactive material is easy to get from Russia - there's a 
photo of cores on a beach somewhere which is *pretty scary* - but
smallpox?  
I dunno. that's pushing it a bit too far.