3d printers have "fingerprints", so they will be registered

[Suck My Glock]

We've all heard about 3D printing in plastic and metal and how "ghost guns" can be made this way. Regardless of how imature that tech is for manufacturing guns, it scares the pinko puke right out of the lefties everywhere,...which is awesome really, no matter how you feel about ghost guns one way or another. Watching them get hysterical is always darkly entertaining.

Unfortunately, someone has applied that fear to technological countermeasures and discovered that 3D printers each leave unique "fingerprints".

So of course, all they have to do is take a sample print from every printer and enter that into a database.

So buy your pre-database printer now!

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/pa98pb/researchers-say-theyve-found-a-way-to-track-untraceable-3d-guns

 

[zonie77]

That's something they claimed they could do with typebar (each letter had it's own bar) typewriters. It could be defeated by bending some of the bars. From the sound of how they are doing it you should be able to change the pattern slightly with a little effort.

 

[338lapua]

They can do all the damn fingerprinting they want but there is NO STOPPING IT. Fingerprint it and we will just change the way the material is applied. We bought commercial printers to learn from but now we can build them in house capable of printing 20'x20' with our own proprietary software and our own computers built with non compromised chips powered by off grid power there literally is no stopping 3D printing.

Want to tag the printing materials, well effing good for you because as a owner of an injection molding and plastic extrusion company I can whip up a blend, extrude it, print with it and good effing luck finding who made it.

Seriously if the newest US $100 bill can be counterfeited and it has been then nothing is stoppable, NOTHING.

 

[lew]

Yep, cat's way out of the bag with this one. With traditional machining, and now modern additive manufacturing, there's no stopping progress.