Oh? A lot of the old-style genetic coders got dumped on the market cheap. The sort of stuff a microbiologist could use to synthesize smallpox. The technique has been demonstrated, although on a harmless virus. The market has shifted to outsourcing to big companies (who carefully check every order against known dangers) that have much higher capital costs but much lower per-letter costs, but that didn't invalidate the old lab bench techniques.

Seeing what people can do with a home made wet lab on youtube, I’m not so sure

> a biological weapon that will be successful

I think he meant one of these:

1) Biological agent, but not meant to be a weapon.

2) A biological weapon, but one that fails catastrophically.

Oh yeah?

https://theconversation.com/an-illegal-bioweapons-lab-was-fo...

https://abc30.com/post/illegal-reedley-biolab-connected-lab-...

Here's a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17154