{"id":29382,"date":"2016-08-25T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ban-ki-moon-digital-technologies-like-3d-printing-have-the-potential-for-massive-destruction"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:31","slug":"ban-ki-moon-digital-technologies-like-3d-printing-have-the-potential-for-massive-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ban-ki-moon-digital-technologies-like-3d-printing-have-the-potential-for-massive-destruction","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon: \u2018digital technologies like 3D printing have the potential for massive destruction\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FGEm1ktRJgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More on the UN\u2019s concern on the next gen technologies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>UN Photo\/Rick Bajornas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of all the initiatives and developments in the 3D printing world, none have caused as much headaches as 3D printed guns. And regardless of where you stand on the issue of gun rights in America, it\u2019s no secret that completely untraceable plastic guns are bringing security issues to the table. Especially law makers in the US have been scratching their heads about what to do with them. Among others, the US State Department has been trying to limit the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ders.org\/articles\/20150709-us-state-department-fight-against-sharing-3d-printed-gun-blueprints-online.html\" target=\"_blank\">spread of 3D printable gun designs<\/a><\/strong>, while a new law passed in California last month requires <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ders.org\/articles\/20160725-new-legislation-in-california-requires-3d-printed-guns-to-be-registered.html\" target=\"_blank\">3D printed guns to be registered<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But the issue of 3D printed guns transcends second amendment debates, according to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. During a speech on the global proliferation of weapons, he listed 3D printing alongside a number of technologies that can be used by terrorists and that facilitate the production of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and other biological and technological threats.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ders.org\/articles\/20160825-ban-ki-moon-digital-technologies-like-3d-printing-have-the-potential-for-massive-destruction.html\">http:\/\/www.3ders.org\/articles\/20160825-ban-ki-moon-digital-t...ction.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on the UN\u2019s concern on the next gen technologies. UN Photo\/Rick Bajornas Of all the initiatives and developments in the 3D printing world, none have caused as much headaches as 3D printed guns. And regardless of where you stand on the issue of gun rights in America, it\u2019s no secret that completely untraceable plastic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,3,1496,1492,8,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biological","category-law","category-security","category-space","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60626,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29382\/revisions\/60626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}