Discussion
Loading...

Post

Log in
  • About
  • Code of conduct
  • Privacy
  • Users
  • Instances
  • About Bonfire
Jenny  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
Jenny ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
@HackyScientress@chaos.social  ยท  activity timestamp last month

Remember the talk I purposed for #39c3 about the push for DRM, firmware lock-in and surveillance on 3D printers by gun control lobby groups in the name of preventing gun violence?

Well the first bill is here for exactly that. It requires manufactures of 3D printers to prevent the use of 3rd party firmware and the introduction of an algorithm that guesses if a print is a gun part and prevents the printer from printing in that case.

Louis Rossmann made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-9ISzMhBM

  • Copy link
  • Flag this post
  • Block
Jenny  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
Jenny ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
@HackyScientress@chaos.social  ยท  activity timestamp last month

And the bill is written so broad that it also would apply to CNC mills, lathes, laser cutters, water jet cutters, etc. It applies to any type of automated additive or subtractive manufacturing.

It even requires the machines to do a check against a cloud service.

And building your own printer with marlin or some other open source solution? Congrats you have to pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars and/or will go to jail.

This is bad, really bad.

  • Copy link
  • Flag this comment
  • Block
Jenny  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
Jenny ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @ WHY 2025
@HackyScientress@chaos.social  ยท  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

There is more to the 3D printer DRM surveillance push.

There is a company that designed a system for surveillance and DRM of 3d printers. And they are actively lobbying it to politicians and 3D printer manufacturers.

This is really bad and we need to started working against this. This company in based in Spain. So don't believe for one second that this is going to be a US thing only. I bet they are already lobbying big time in Brussels.

There is a video about it:
https://youtu.be/tGEVra9U91I

  • Copy link
  • Flag this comment
  • Block

bonfire.cafe

A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate

bonfire.cafe: About ยท Code of conduct ยท Privacy ยท Users ยท Instances
Bonfire social ยท 1.0.2-alpha.34 no JS en
Automatic federation enabled
Log in
Instance logo
  • Explore
  • About
  • Members
  • Code of Conduct