They are incompetent enough to pass this bill without a tangible means to do what want from it so idk man. The bill mentions scanning of the files so I don’t think it will be based off hashes, but rather some AI driven slicer built into the printers or requiring printers to be connected to an AI to start a print. The problem becomes the question of what is a gun and what constitutes useable. Can I print a Dick Gun? What about a Dick minigun? Or would they both be banned?
True haha. But yeah, a file hash is actually uniquely useless in this case, any gcode spun out of a slicer is going to be hardware and user specific.
Just seems like there would be opportunities for hacking and reverse engineering this measure. At it’s root, it’s a measure that builds firearm information into the firmware, surely that could be exploited by a person who wanted to do that sort of thing.
Register as a manufacturer of 3D printers
Government gives you an updated, comprehensive archive of STL files your firmware must reject
???
Profit
If only the government were that incompetent. But even I have my doubts they would distribute anything more than hashes.
Still, changing a hash is ridiculously simple.
They are incompetent enough to pass this bill without a tangible means to do what want from it so idk man. The bill mentions scanning of the files so I don’t think it will be based off hashes, but rather some AI driven slicer built into the printers or requiring printers to be connected to an AI to start a print. The problem becomes the question of what is a gun and what constitutes useable. Can I print a Dick Gun? What about a Dick minigun? Or would they both be banned?
True haha. But yeah, a file hash is actually uniquely useless in this case, any gcode spun out of a slicer is going to be hardware and user specific.
Just seems like there would be opportunities for hacking and reverse engineering this measure. At it’s root, it’s a measure that builds firearm information into the firmware, surely that could be exploited by a person who wanted to do that sort of thing.