Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing

Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by kazinator on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:03PM (#22707688)

> A viral bioweapon is like trying to enact MAD by being the only ones with nukes and threatening to nuke everyone including yourself unless others do as you wish.

Someone with a viral bioweapon will develop it together with a vaccine. They will let only their people and allies have the vaccine, ensuring it is distributed secretly ahead of time, and wipe out everyone else.

Or possibly use it for blackmail: surrender everything to us, and those of you still left alive will be spared.

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Re:Singapore to Open Source Bluetooth Contact Tracing by TeMPOraL on Friday March 27, 2020 @07:20PM (#22707780)

I'm worried that bioweapons at present levels of technology/understanding of science are just too risky for sane people to deploy. Even if a vaccine was paired with a pathogen, the risk of mutation making the vaccine irrelevant is too high.

Therefore, I'd expect one to be developed by some suicidal crazies with a grudge, who also won't have a particular need for a vaccine.

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