Yep. To take a physical-world analogy: Would it be okay to try and prove the vulnerability of a country's water supply by intentionally introducing a "harmless" chemical into the treatment works, without the consent of the works owners? Or would that be a
go directly to jail sort of an experiment?
I share the researchers' intellectual curiosity about whether this would work, but I don't see how a properly-informed ethics board could ever have passed it.
