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it's curious to me that almost every reply here doesn't approach this with any measure of curiosity or caution like you usually get on HN. the responses are either: "I agree", or "this is silly unreal nonsense". to me that very much reads like people who are scared and people who are scared but don't want to admit it to themselves.

to actually address your comment: that simply isn't true.

WRT:

Viruses: you can mail order printed DNA strands right now if you want to. maybe they won't or can't print specific things like viruses for now, but technology advances and blackmail has been around for a very very long time.

Military Comms: blackmail is going nowhere

Crash the stock market: already happened in 2010

Change records: blackmail once again.

Kill bots: kill bots already exist and if a factory doesn't want to make them for you, blackmail the owner