New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine

Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by slavak on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:52PM (#18114444)

You can "download" crappy, not very effective guns. And you still need to obtain the ammo (the actually lethal part) the old-fashioned way.

I would very much be surprised if it becomes possible for drugs or explosives any time within my lifetime. Chemistry and physics just don't work that way.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by paradite on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:59PM (#18114499)

I thought so too, but then I googled "3d print drugs" and "3d print explosives".

I think google doesn't censor results based on location? So you should see the same results.

Edit: To save your time and avoid polluting your search history:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/you-could-soon-be-man...

https://all3dp.com/custom-shaped-explosives-us-navy-3d-print...

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by slavak on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:55PM (#18203774)

Thanks, that's quite interesting.

Still, you do need very specific input materials for both processes.

In the case of the latter, you basically need a spool of explosive string. You're not so much printing an explosive as you are shaping an explosive into a desired form. I'm sure it's still very useful, but I don't think it's a particularly big game changer in the "smuggling things into a country" field.

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