Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
Another example of unintentional political humor. Coming soon to a legislature near you.
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
They say it's about guns, but it's really about finding out who's printing whistles.
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
We don't need the infrastructure that would allow the USG to censor what you can print with a 3D printer. We need a gun policy that prohibits those sorts of guns, and regulates many others, like assault rifles for civilian use.
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
@apas_csc @pluralistic if only law lemurs would legislate less stupidly, and people would stop giving the civilization-destroying sociopaths the means to do so.
Also iirc the "guns" printed are usually just the box many unprintable parts go into.
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Why it is a terrible idea to try to prevent 3D printers from printing guns: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html
Seems like one of those bad policy ideas that is hard to get out of the heads of politicians. Highly recommended to read the 2018 text of @pluralistic thwas was linked by Bruce Schneier: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/22/yellow-dots-cubed.html
@apas_csc @pluralistic ... and how exactly is the 3D printer supposed to tell whether something is part of a gun?
3D printer processing power typically ranges from Arduino levels to a modern RPi.
They are extremely stupid machines. They never see the model file, they just get a list of movements, and execute them. Small tweaks in path generation settings can drastically change the output, and the model geometry is also easy to adjust.
How the hell is this supposed to work out?
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