{"id":19843,"date":"2013-04-13T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T15:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19843"},"modified":"2013-04-13T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T15:22:58","slug":"3d-printing-guns-and-the-hacker-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/3d-printing-guns-and-the-hacker-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing, guns, and the hacker ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>The Verge<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/12\/4209364\/guns-want-to-be-free-what-happens-when-3d-printing-and-crypto-anarchy\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Kopstein<\/a> outlines the state of play in 3D printing, guns, and the hacker subculture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cyberculture icon Stewart Brand\u2019s famous notion that \u201cinformation wants to be free\u201d has been an almost ubiquitous refrain ever since utopian-minded hackers began populating computer networks in the 1980s. Today, 3D printing has given the phrase a whole new meaning, allowing raw data to become real world weapons with the click of a button. Cody R. Wilson, the antagonistic founder of Defense Distributed, is taking that idea to its logical \u2014 and hugely controversial \u2014 extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Having recently obtained his federal manufacturing license, Wilson hopes to release files for the world\u2019s first fully 3D-printable firearm by the end of this month. His past progress has already thrown a major wrench into America\u2019s resurgent gun control debate, feeding doubts about the efficacy of renewed bans on undetectable firearms. But his reasoning, he claims, isn&#8217;t really about the Second Amendment at all \u2014 it&#8217;s about technological progress rendering the very concept of gun control meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more radical for us,\u201d he told <em>Motherboard<\/em> in \u201cClick Print Gun,\u201d a recent mini-doc about the dark side of the 3D printing revolution. \u201cThere are people all over the world downloading our files and we say &#8216;good.&#8217; We say you should have access to this. You simply should.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If this all sounds very similar to the good gospel spread by Brand and advanced by progressives and activists like the late Aaron Swartz, you\u2019re hearing it right. But even without the context of Wilson\u2019s operation, firearms and freedom of information share a strangely similar history, an oft-overlooked ideological confluence between hackers and gun advocates that seems to be gaining momentum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Verge, Joshua Kopstein outlines the state of play in 3D printing, guns, and the hacker subculture: Cyberculture icon Stewart Brand\u2019s famous notion that \u201cinformation wants to be free\u201d has been an almost ubiquitous refrain ever since utopian-minded hackers began populating computer networks in the 1980s. 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