Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security

Re:Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Confere... by salawat on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:45PM (#20518935)

I want to point out, that manufacturing a gun is not "non-trivial".

Given blueprints, (publicly available) or a template and accurate enough measures, a lathe, and a mill, anyone can make a firearm or parts for one in their garage.

Is there reading involved? Yes. But any argument you make w.r.t. The futility of illegalizing encryption is immediately portable to firearms manufacture.

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Re:Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Confere... by pokeymcsnatch on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:11PM (#20519754)

I mean... manufacturing a working modern firearm in their garage is probably much more achievable to the general population than rolling out any kind of encryption software. Anyone with some basic hands-on competency can make a gun.

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Re:Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Confere... by jki275 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:29AM (#20524448)

All you really need is a drill press and some basic tools. People made Sten guns in WWII and that's still a perfectly valid firearm design (fully automatic even) that requires almost no work to make.

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