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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun by nothrabannosir on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:11PM (#9188371)
Very different, given what a member of the group "anybody" can do with open-source software, compared to what they can do with a gun. Both to themselves and to other people. Both the advantages and the disadvantages.
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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun by Mtinie on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:34PM (#9188462)
I can envision multitudes of scenarios where the free proliferation of source software to "anybody" with an Internet connection can be far more deadly.
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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun by GhotiFish on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:10PM (#9188609)
I assume you are referring to scenarios where there is security through obscurity.
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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun by tonyarkles on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:16PM (#9188636)
Eg metasploit
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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @11:27PM (#9189072)
Right, with a gun you can hurt maybe a dozen people around you. With hacking tools etc you can hurt thousands or millions.
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