Uk Authorities Worried about 3D Printing and Terrorism

[Brian_Krassenstein]

While 3D printing is certainly a disruptive technology, this is typically seen as a positive aspect due to the capability to do significant good through bioprinting and other medical and humanitarian applications. However, as the technology takes hold throughout the world, the intelligence community is aware that not all applications will be for the good of mankind. Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police Head of Special Operations and Assistant Commissioner, has taken serious note of the level of terrorist threat in his country. Speaking this week at London's Counter Terror Expo, Rowley has noted that 3D printing might pose a significant issue in the realm of terrorism, due to the potential for 3D printed guns, drones, and explosives. Read more about his concerns in the full article: http://3dprint.com/59830/uk-anti-terror-3d-printing/


Below is the banner from the London Terror Expo:

[jinx]

reading through this article and the gun part and the link such bad misinformation and for the police to be citing it is shocking, from what I recall the chap in manchester used a makerbot 2 and was printing a part for the extruder that the police wrongfully identified as part of the liberator. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....hester-6243642 so unless theirs another I dont know off, someone full of tihs
one more link to it http://www.newscientist.com/article/...l#.VT5BKdJVhBc

[curious aardvark]

yeah basically apart from novelty ied casing - unless you've got a metal printer there's not much terrorist wise a standard fff 3d printer will help with.

Just make public the recipe for acetone peroxide with one minor change.
Tell the buggers that the mixture should be boiled not chilled and let darwinism do it's bit :-)

And yes it's astonishing just how badly educated most of the authorities are on this kind of thing. Just look at the ridiculous measure they take for airline 'security'.
Most of what you need is already onboard the plane or can be purchased once you've gone through security. taking nail scissors off people and then giving them cans, glass bottles and metal knives once on the plane makes NO SENSE.

Likewise the level of education in the average copper is woeful.

The problem is the people who end up in charge - don't get there because they're clever or well informed. They get there because they can kiss arse really really well. And they're good at filling in forms.

Unfortunately that also goes for most of the technical consultants who make it to the big time as well.

[RundinWindsor]

Terrorism is a very real and multifarious thing that has tentacles and fingers that reach into every nook and cranny of our modern life. The events of september 11, 2001, which in reality, shifted life as the world knew it in a way not seen since the time of christ....in the sense that we as americans and global citizens shall always refer to a pre-911 world and of course, live in a post 9-11 world. This is neither here nor there, but for those too young to remember a world where people spoke to their neighbors, whrere children walked in cities and suburbs and country hamlets unafraid of anything except growing up and losing their love 0f playing kick the can or red rover, red rover. Having said this, the children of today will never know the idyllic innocence of world where fear didn't govern our every action, where people were unabashedly capable of giving you an opinion if asked for one, and a world where honesty was not looked at as subversive. This america is gone forever, unfortunately, and today, to speak your own mind i to dig your own grave. Some of us have back-hoes for our own grave digging but that is immaterial.
In the words of fitzgerald: "gatsby believed in the green light. The orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. But that's no matter, for tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further, and one fine morning...and so we beat on. Boats against the current. Borne back ceaselessly, into the past..." preserve free speech wherever you are in the world. For without it we are animals. Fit to die, and not worthy of burial or taking up oxygen. Please.

[postmahomeson]

it's like banning many thing can be used to store explosive material that you could drill into a put in a slow burn fuse, it's like banning life they should be more worried molecular fabricators should be the larger focus after all ,after all a terrorist would rather a molecular fabricator could make straight pure including hardest ever illegal drugs , deadly poison gas , extremely volatile explosive material , on the fly and much more do not take it the wrong way it's just a good point which is permitted under democratic rights which allows honest feedback