Whatever they've got, it ain't a CAD file.
Posted on 05/12/2013 3:23:29 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
The Pirate Bay now offering banned 3D-printed gun files The State Department has successfully demanded the removal of the files from Defcad. The Pirate Bay has picked up the slack.
For those who worry that even 24 hours without the ability to download 3D-printed gun blueprints is too much, fret no more: The Pirate Bay is on the case. On Thursday, the U.S. State Department successfully demanded the removal of a set of 3D-printed firearm files from Defcad, a file-sharing site run by Defense Distributed, the group at the center of the 3D-printed gun controversy.
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Lots of freepers missing the point about this. The crappy .380 is V1.0. I'm betting V10.1 is a whole lot better.
The amazing thing about a dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all.
/johnny
Whatever they've got, it ain't a CAD file.
/johnny
I download no executable files from nobody.
Wow, who could have seen THAT coming.
The Barbara Streisand Effect if I’ve ever seen it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
/johnny
“Self extracting zip file.”
Along with auto-mutating virii that are designed to evade anti-virus programs, no doubt.
The safest way to deal with this might be to extract it on a virtual machine, get the extracted file(s), which, hopefully, don’t contain virii of their own, and then delete the VM.
I dare you to download that thing and run it.
You can do a lot of damage with a rock. Maybe Bloomberg should look into this.
/johnny
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>>No way, Ho-Zay.
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>>I download no executable files from nobody.
Or at least nothing from a source that isn’t a widely known software publisher, like say the Firefox folks, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.
Random *.exe? No thanks. Just a zip is fine.
Or download and expand it in sandbox.
I tried to get there & download and was inundated by spam stuff and spyware. Hopefully it will soon resolve itself.
This opens the door to a really huge prank. Get an expert in encryption to make a program that bulk generates an s-load of garbage into files, and put that on the Internet to download as encrypted recipes for any number of “forbidden” guns.
Say that you are putting this out as “insurance”, and if the government doesn’t “back off”, your ‘organization’ will provide the code keys to decrypt all the data.
The first thing they will do is to try and decrypt it, which will achieve bupkus, and bug the heck out of them, because even with their ultra advanced decryption, they cannot bust it.
LOL
Open the .exe file with a client like winrar or winzip. If it really is a self-extracting file, you should be able to see the files inside and extract manually.
I don't believe so. Cody did not export any technology. He put it on his website, available for download. Now if anyone in the world can access the website and download his files, so be it. This is for a plastic one-shot gun that meets legal requirements for ownership by the person who builds one. There are numerous websites that offer plans for downloading war weapons can can cause mayhem to thousands, including nuclear and chemical bombs. This plastic gun design is a toy in comparison. It is a prototype that can be improved on, and will be by others. It is not critical technology to the U.S. government.
I haven’t been on piratebay for a while but they usually use bittorrent to download from that site, it’s a torrent site.
Once you install the program, just hit “torrent” on whatever page comes up on Piratebay for that 3d gun. Just watch it though because the RIAA and MPAA hire hackers to absolutely load that site with viruses which is why I haven’t gone back. I was stupid enough to DL a movie from them once and it completely wrecked my computer. They actually cut off my internet from my browser, I couldn’t believe it. I think it’s safer if you are using a mac.
“It is not critical technology to the U.S. government.”
I agree. It is just a runaway gov’t exercising its muscles.
Oh wait I see what you are saying, you are already using a torrent? Yeah I looked, they got it in a zip file. So that .exe comes up when you unzip? Yeah I wouldn’t trust that sh*t. I can just imagine what kind of viruses the Obama cabal has packed in there. They probably got uploaders just to F people up.
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