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Speck Tater

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14. I should clairfy the very important distinction I want to make...
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 12:27 PM
Apr 2012

The person who does RESEARCH and DISCOVERS something dangerous is very probably part of a large team or organization, probably funded by government, and should be accountable for negligence. That person is obviously NOT a "crazed individual".

Once that something has been discovered, it may become possible for a single person or very small group of people, to implement that discovery without requiring that much in the way of resources.

That was my whole point. Technology is putting more and more dangerous things like this within the reach of crazed individuals, or small groups of terrorists who don't have to discover new dangerous things, because those things have already been discovered and published.

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