{"id":296,"date":"2009-09-18T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/296-german-hacker-3d-prints-dutch-police-handcuff-key.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:53:01","slug":"german-hacker-3d-prints-dutch-police-handcuff-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/german-hacker-3d-prints-dutch-police-handcuff-key","title":{"rendered":"German hacker 3D prints Dutch police handcuff key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like all technologies, you can put 3D Printing to dubious use as well.. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s news is a German hacker, Ray. Ray likes to collect handcuffs and find crazy ways to open them.<\/p>\n<p>This time he was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.nl\/?p=940\">duplicate the key to Dutch police handcuffs<\/a> (there&#8217;s only one key format &#8211; duh!). He simply took a high-resolution photograph of a key that was dangling from a policeman&#8217;s belt, reconstructed it in 3D software and printed it on a 3D printer. And yes, it worked!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"349\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/handcuff-key-dutch-police-plastic12.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not legal to own such a key so I don&#8217;t advise printing one, but it does make for a very interesting demonstration of what happens once production tools become democratized. <\/p>\n<p>Now handcuffs are only for temporarily restraining suspects (at least by the Dutch police), so I don&#8217;t think this is a major issue for them. Still, the trouble with the interweb is of course that once a file it out in the open (as it is in this case) it&#8217;s extremely difficult &#8211; if not impossible &#8211; to remove it, making the key in question virtually useless. If this had happened to, say,&nbsp; a master key of a building, you&#8217;d have to&nbsp; replace every lock..<\/p>\n<p>This story is not unlike the British police chief Bob Quick, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article6064547.ece\">whose secret document was photographed on the street<\/a>. Do we need to be more careful &#8216;out there&#8217;? I makes me wonder what&#8217;s next; people taking an ultra-high resolution photograph of your thumb to replicate your fingerprint? (yes Ray, we have your fingerprint on file now, too \ud83d\ude09 Replicating your car keys when you leave your car?<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.nl\/?p=940\">blackbag.nl<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like all technologies, you can put 3D Printing to dubious use as well.. 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