Ancha Baranova, professor at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University, called the problem complicating the fight against COVID-19.

According to her, the modern patenting system does not allow putting on the market simple drugs that could help during the course of illness and during rehabilitation. “For example, if we have a simple molecule that we have in the body and we just need to get a little more of it, - it would seem an elementary task - but such a drug will not be developed. Because it cannot be patented, ”she explained.

Baranova noted that this is a logical continuation of the general patenting system, which was introduced out of good intentions. However, the system is now "in crisis," the biologist said.

The specialist said that the patenting system obliges to conduct several stages of clinical trials. This led to the fact that drug prices rose, and pharmaceutical companies ceased to be profitable to produce cheap drugs. In addition, drugs, the scheme of which was discussed by scientists in the open press, did not get into production, since in this case the agent could no longer be protected by a patent.

Who could have though. But capitalism is not to blame here, of course. Just need to adjust patent system a little.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Fully matches farmers and large fruits manufacturers behavior in 2020. They set absolute record on specially destroyed and dumped good food.

Nothing much changes in capitalism, its teeth constantly cut through the mask of "nice human face".

In this paper, we have proposed an AES-like encryption algorithm which contains a backdoor at its design level. This algorithm, named BEA-1, exhibits many of the desirable properties that any secure algorithm should. However, it is absolutely unsuitable for actually protection information. Indeed, we manage to break it with a rather limited amount of resources successfully. While it is a humble, first step in a larger research work, it illustrates the issue of using foreign encryption algorithms which may contains such hidden weaknesses. The very final aim of our work is to prove that it is feasible to embed such undetectable intended weaknesses. It is consequently a critical issue to have a broader work conducted in this research area and we hope that other people will also consider it as such. The next step will be to consider more sophisticated combinatoric structures.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.06475.pdf

https://www.ruscrypto.ru/resource/archive/rc2017/files/02_filiol.pdf

Idea is that authorities design algorithm such that S boxes have also another version that allow you to extremely drop complexity for decryption (if you know enough encrypted and encrypted data pairs - not very hard for common file formats).

Real AES, Mordor and Chinese standards use much more complex holes, and many of them (top ones are known for extremely limited number of people).

OLD AGE

Kde jsou ty chvíle nádherné,
kdy jsem měl všechny údy ohebné,
jen jeden ne!!!
Ty doby dávno minuly
a všechny údy ztuhnuly,
jen jeden ne!!!

Where are those wonderful moments,
when I had all my limbs flexible,
just one not !!!
That is a long time ago
and all the limbs stiffened,
just one not !!!

Jaroslav Vrchlický