Biosecurity Commentary: Hacking a Lab’s Pathogen Containment System; should this experiment have been published?

A recent article by a group of cyber-physical security experts at University of California Irvine (UCI) highlighted a potential vulnerability in negative pressure containment rooms. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3548606.3560643 A commentary about this article was authored by George Poste and David Gillum at Arizona State University asking the question: "Should this research have been published?" https://thebulletin.org/2023/01/researchers-hacked-a-labs-pathogen-containment-system-was-it-a-good-idea-to-publish-the-results/#post-heading The authors discuss the impact of publishing lab vulnerabilities considering recent scrutiny of potential gain-of-function research and the relative lack of government oversight over this line of research.  They go on to criticize the disparity between this release of information and how the cybersecurity community has [...]