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A 3D Print-Crime for real?


Printing police handcuff keys?


A 3D Print-Crime for real? Printing police handcuff keys?

A German guy used a 3D printer to print handcuff keys, actually the official handcuff key from the Dutch police.

He printed a perfectly working plastic key, undetectable by metal detectors:

Printing police handcuff keys

How long before 3D printers will be banned, maybe for fear of people printing weapons or copyrighted stuff?

That reminds me of a sci-fi novel by Cory Doctorow, freely available to read or download in various formats (mp3 included) under a Creative Commonse license, as every novel by Doctorow:

Printcrime

Science Fiction?

Author: Asterisk, for AZ10.com ~ 24 Sep 2009




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