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Criminals Find New Uses for 3D Printing | PCWorld - 2 views

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  • D printers--desktop devices that can print out objects as easily as your home inkjet prints out documents--are getting less expensive and more common every day, and they promise to revolutionize manufacturing in the same way that desktop printing revolutionized publishing.
  • Unfortunately, though the promise of 3D printing is great, we've also begun to see glimpses of its dark side as criminals--and average citizens who are up to no good--think up dangerous and creepy new uses for 3D printed material.
  • used his 3D printer to create a key to unlock handcuffs carried by the Dutch police. Startlingly, he was able to measure and reproduce the key accurately by using nothing more than a photograph of the key hanging from the belt of a police officer plus some basic math to gauge its size.
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  • A similar ring was indicted in South Texas in June 2011 after investing some of its ill-gotten gains in more-advanced 3D printers. And last year a legitimate 3D printing service called i.Materialise received an order for an ATM skimmer that it turned down. "Fortunately, our engineers were quick to react," i.Materialise said on its blog, "and after communication with the customer, the decision was made to decline the order. We do not support criminal activity and will do everything in our power to prevent possible crimes."
  • The gang's skimmers--devices that fit over an ATM machine and steal the debit or credit card information of unsuspecting ATM users--were created on high-tech 3D printers to help make the skimmer overlays for the ATM machines look as realistic as possible.
  • Obvious examples are the keys to your home, office, and car--yet savvy 3D printer owners have already how to do just that: Measure the key, build a 3D model, and print away to produce cheap copies.
  • site where users share potentially useful 3D models for others to print out at home, posted the plans for printing a magazine for an AR-15 rifle. A fully automatic AR-15 can fire 800 bullets a minute. While the posted model held just five rounds of ammunition and was completely legal, extending the magazine to hold fifteen or even more rounds by modifying the model would be easy enough.
  • He says that, while some uses of 3D printers are obviously dangerous and illegal, we have to think about how much 3D printing is to blame.
  • that people can create on 3D printers--the keys, the gun parts, and even the ATM skimmers--have been illegally manufactured in the past by means of traditional milling machines and other manufacturing hardware.
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    "s your home inkjet prints out documents--are getting less expensive and more common every day, and they promise to revolutionize manufacturing in the same way that desktop printing revolutionized publishing. I've written elsewhere about how we're at the start of a 3D printing revolution. In the past year, people have used 3D printing to tackle everything from spare parts to entire cars to blood vessels. It seems as though a new use for 3D printing emerges every week. Unfortunately, though the promise of 3D printing is great, we've also begun to see glimpses of its dark side as criminals--and average citizens who are up to no good--think up dangerous and creepy new uses for 3D printed material. How About Your Car Key? When people can replicate any object with ease, you soon realize that there are plenty of objects you don't want replicated. Obvious examples are the keys to your home, office, and car--yet savvy 3D printer owners have already how to do just that: Measure the key, build a 3D model, and print away to produce cheap copies. If you're the rightful owner, the technology gives you a hassle-free way to generate backup keys, but the process can go terribly wrong. For instance, a member of a German lock-picking group, Sportsfreunde Der Sperrtechnik - Deutschland e.V., used his 3D printer to create a key to unlock handcuffs carried by the Dutch police. Startlingly, he was able to measure and reproduce the key accurately by using nothing more than a photograph of the key hanging from the belt of a police officer plus some basic math to gauge its size. Afterward, he not only printed out a copy of the key to test, but also put the model up online for anyone to print. A 3D-printed key that can open Dutch police handcuffs. The key was just a proof of concept by an enthusiastic amateur and hasn't been used in the commission of any actual crimes, but real criminals have discovered 3D printers, too. In September 2011, a gang was prosecuted after stealing more than
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Overview: What is 3D Printing and Know more about it. - 0 views

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    Know about 3D Printing 3D Printing is taking awesomeness to the next level! Everyone is an artist in their own way. Drawing things on paper has been the way show things for centuries. These drawings are two dimensional and stuck to the paper. 3D printing brings your creations to the real world as a physical object.
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What is 3D Printing? An Overview on 3D Printing Technology - 0 views

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    3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing technology. This process is used to make three dimensional solid objects and also used in many other fields like engineering, classrooms, healthcare etc...
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3-D Printing the New War on Drugs - 1 views

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  • erwise, the costs of research, winning regulatory approval, and production can exceed anything a pharmaceutical company could hope to recoup in an era when developing a new drug might cost a billion — or billions of — dollars.
  • Not incidentally, the revolution also promises to kneecap whatever is left of efforts to control chemistry’s results, including recreational drugs.
  • What impact will the ability to print chemical compounds on printers have on the political class of easily flustered control freaks?
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  • If people could print off… sheets of ecstasy tablets at the party they’re at that time, that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense.
  • It’s difficult to believe that the world that brought us the Silk Road online marketplace for illegal drugs won’t also produce chemically oriented tinkerers in abundance to exploit the recreational (and commercial) potential of producing intoxicants via 3-D chemical printing.
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