Controlling the access to data, all that is needed to print your own weapon, may be impossible.
Share to twitterRow by row, the object is taking shape while its future owner looks on. Each plastic part printed by the 3D printer will eventually come together to form something that until now, you needed a background check to obtain.
This time, all he needed to get a gun was a 3D printer and some downloadable blueprints from the internet.3D printable handgun were available on the internet. These plans were downloaded 100,000 times before the United States Department of State ordered the blueprints be removed. Cody Wilson, owner of Defense Distributed company, holds a 3D printed gun, called the 'Liberator', in his factory in Austin, Texas on August 1, 2018. This is terrifying. Controlling access to guns and weapons is difficult. But controlling the access to data, all that is needed to print your own weapon, may be impossible.
Now, imagine that instead of a handgun, anyone with a 3D printer can print out a Weapon of Mass Destruction . This is the threat outlined by a report released earlier this month “As with the Liberator handgun, it’s hard to stop the flow of data. This report warns that with the proper blueprints, a 3D printer and printer stock, WMD could be printed by rogue states, terrorists, and even those that have never had the ability or the know-how to access powerful weapons before.
3D printers can print a host of materials, from a range of metals, ceramics, and polymers. They have been used to print
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