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This is flamebait (perhaps not intentionally on your part), as this question usually flares up in the 3D printer mailing lists every so often with everyone weig
by iamwil 14y ago
This is flamebait (perhaps not intentionally on your part), as this question usually flares up in the 3D printer mailing lists every so often with everyone weighing in.
Mainframe Computers was first used to crack codes and calculate ballistic missile trajectories. If you were around in 1979, when personalized computers came along, would you have asked asked "what happens when people start cracking secret codes to read wires and calculating ballistic missile trajectories and selling them to foreign gov'ts?" And if so, do you think it's an important question given what you know about computer usage in 2012? Do you ask yourself that question about computers now?
- regularfry 14y agoPerhaps pertinently, the government absolutely did ask that question, and restricted computer export for precisely the reasons you give. It might not be a valid concern in and of itself, but it's definitely going to be interesting to see how the government handle it.
- wonderyak 14y agoPoor metaphor. If anything, the risks of hackers and proliferation of Wikileaks like sites have made this danger more of a reality. Killing people is a trivial effort when it comes down to it; most people in the world would rather not kill people nor go to jail.