{"id": "1t7q3xl", "title": "On May 7th, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York's Fiscal Year 2027 budget will become the first law in the United States to mandate surveillance software inside every 3D printer sold within the state.", "subreddit": "WayOfTheBern", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1t7q3xl/on_may_7th_governor_kathy_hochul_announced_that/", "score": 19, "comments": 10, "selftext": "It will make it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. Every printer sold in New York must ship with print-blocking algorithms that scan each job in real time and refuse to execute anything the algorithm flags.\n\n\n\nThe sales pitch is \"ghost guns.\" The mechanism is a permission gate inside a machine you paid for.\n\n\n\nPilot tests of the proposed algorithm by an open-firmware team triggered the block on 17% of non-weapon prints. Brackets tha", "created_utc": 1778287921.0}