A.
You
either had good connections and got a high-end job or you started
tinkering with things on your own to try and make a name for yourself on
the open source front. At least it was like that before the
bioterrorist attack of 2020 killed around a million. It’s funny (in a
sick way) how the death of one person is tragedy, but the death of one
thousands is a statistic. Regulations were rapidly put in place to limit
access to databases and materials, so self-styled, honest biopunks had
to either go underground, take a sharp left turn in their career
prospects and start doing something else or fill the jobs vacated by
those who died. Where one door closes, another opens...
This
is when the government decided that it needed more people to work on
controlling the directions garage biology could take, to prevent such
events ever happening again. The Biosafety and Biosecurity Division was
set up and was tasked with developing ways to predict, model, prevent
and remedy any bioterrorist attacks that could occur, as well as carry
out periodic scans of most synthetic products that get released. We have
shown some success, in that nothing so big has occurred again (yet?)
and things have been quiet, save for a few isolated cases that we
managed to contain quickly enough. Honest biopunks probably hate us for severing their access to the large databases, but even they must understand that we are fighting the good fight.
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