If a company specializing in 3D-printing, and government agencies are hoping to continue to control the spread of dangerous and illegal of 3D-models of various objects, they need to be more vigilant.
Late last month, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, 31-year-old creative designer and technologist from Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London, presented to the public a special tool called Disarming Corruptor, designed to distort the drawings of objects that can be printed on the 3D-printer. He created the app allows you to change the 3D-model of the object beyond recognition. In order to restore the drawings need only pre-generated key. Only after that the object can be printed on the 3D-printer. In other words, Disarming Corruptor allows you to “encrypt” and put all the drawings of objects that can be printed on the 3D-printer on popular sites like Thingiverse.
Mr. Plummer-Fernandez says the idea of 3D-models of masking occurred to him for the first time when specialists iMaterialize denied in print that he created 3D-model of Mickey Mouse for reasons of copyright protection. Then he thought again about this venture as a site Thingiverse in 2012 removed all the component drawings 3D-arms. Appendix Disarming Corruptor distorts the shape and proportions of an object changes so that it becomes unrecognizable.
“When the patent trolls and law enforcement agencies will find encrypted 3D-models, they will see only abstract textures and distortion. In fact, the data files are the objects, but in need of renovation, “- says Plummer-Fernandez.
It also encourages the download encrypted drawing any objects on the site Thingiverse marked «DC».
At this point in the base Disarming Corruptor contains 101 key, and the program offers a “basic level of encryption,” but to deceive Thingiverse under her power. At the same time, with the necessary software can be improved and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez managed to achieve our goal – to show that even now there is a technology that allows you to bypass the copyright or other restrictions.
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