At this point we just assume every computer is compromised, and we carve out enclaves of varying security for whatever risk level we're willing to assume.
I can imagine a future where pandemics happen at the same frequency as school shootings do today. How far away is that?
With the COVID vaccine, we’re now very close to being able to infect someone with vCJD through a pinprick, with technology that within a couple of years someone will be able to make at home.
The difficulty with what you’ve asked is we don’t have the API in the same way as with computers. I suspect that for many many iterations of computing power and biological understanding we are going to be a long way from being able to determine how to make something dangerous from scratch (although it should be easier to make something dangerous become more dangerous)
If I was a teenager interested in biology, and I wanted to maybe build a "harmless" virus just to see if I could do it, how achievable might that be?
I watched computer viruses go from:
researchers -> tinkerers -> vandals -> criminals -> governments
At this point we just assume every computer is compromised, and we carve out enclaves of varying security for whatever risk level we're willing to assume.
I can imagine a future where pandemics happen at the same frequency as school shootings do today. How far away is that?