{"id":8807,"date":"2006-02-24T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2006-02-24T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:43:35","slug":"wmds-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8807","title":{"rendered":"WMDs for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/abi_394.jpg\">If ever there was a blog item worthy of our &#8220;Sign of the Apocalypse&#8221; shingle, it may be this one. <\/p>\n<p> Paul Boutin has a <a href=\"http:\/\/paulboutin.weblogger.com\/stories\/storyReader$1439\" target=\"new\">very unsettling piece<\/a> on his blog about DIY bioweaponry. As you&#8217;re likely aware, the common punditary wisdom is that &#8220;A significant bioterror attack today would require the support of a national program to succeed&#8221; (quoth the NYTimes in 2002). <\/p>\n<p> Paul&#8217;s article paints a very different picture of the relative ease involved in creating such weapons and quotes a current researcher, Rob Carlson, as saying: (if biotech development proceeds apace, within a decade) &#8220;&#8230;cooking up a lethal bug will be as easy and cheap as building a Web site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/\" target=\"new\">O&#8217;Reilly Radar<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever there was a blog item worthy of our &#8220;Sign of the Apocalypse&#8221; shingle, it may be this one. Paul Boutin has a very unsettling piece on his blog about DIY bioweaponry. As you&#8217;re likely aware, the common punditary wisdom is that &#8220;A significant bioterror attack today would require the support of a national &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WMDs for Dummies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}