{"id":71066,"date":"2017-07-21T06:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/3d-printed-gun-designs-are-selling-for-12-on-the-dark-web"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:33","slug":"3d-printed-gun-designs-are-selling-for-12-on-the-dark-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/3d-printed-gun-designs-are-selling-for-12-on-the-dark-web","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Gun Designs Are Selling for $12 on the Dark Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-gun-designs-are-selling-for-12-on-the-dark-web.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report shows just how easy it is becoming to download designs for difficult-to-trace arms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the darker corners of the Internet <\/strong>where search engines cannot go, black markets offer pistols, machine guns, even explosives \u2014 and most worrisome to security researchers, computer aided design, or CAD, files for 3D-printed guns.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/latest.html\">new report from RAND<\/a> looked at 811 weapons listings on a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deep_web\">dark-web<\/a> markets, which continue to thrive despite the shuttering of sites like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/the-silk-roads-dark-web-dream-is-dead\/\">Silk Road<\/a> and, just this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/alphabay-takedown-dark-web-chaos\/\">AlphaBay<\/a>. Firearms were the top-selling category, with was 339 active listings, roughly 42 percent of the market. But the next-largest share, with 222 listings, was a variety of digital products, from build-it-yourself explosives manuals to CAD files.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/3d-printed-gun-file-dark-web-averages-12\/139580\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer10298&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/07\/3d-printed-gun-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report shows just how easy it is becoming to download designs for difficult-to-trace arms. In the darker corners of the Internet where search engines cannot go, black markets offer pistols, machine guns, even explosives \u2014 and most worrisome to security researchers, computer aided design, or CAD, files for 3D-printed guns. A new report [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1523,418,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-computing","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71108,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71066\/revisions\/71108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}