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A group in Washington is promoting an initiative to reduce gun crime by using laser-etched bullets to track shooters. According to their website, the data will only be used for legitimate investigations (no datamining) and secured with "recursive verification" features (sounds like a blockchain). Washington state already requires ammunition purchasers to produce valid ID when making purchases. Googling reveals that previous efforts by state legislatures to enact similar legislation have been torpedoed by the gun lobby. Initiatives are not subject to lobbying, so it should be interesting to see how the opposition tackles this campaign.
http://dosomethingwa.org
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-ammunition-idUSBRE90J02K20130120
http://igg.me/at/dosomethingwa
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 10 2016, @09:04PM
You think of a "framing a specific ID for your crime". That's a too strong requirement, it's enough to "frame some other id, no matter who but not me".
Suddenly other scenarios become possible. Like (but not limited to):
* collect some spent bullets from a shooting practice and reload them in your cartridges.
* arrange a bullet swap with some "just stick it to the man" like minded others (tell you what... I'm sure a P2P anonymized BulletSwap app would be so successful, it will appear in a week after this "solution" sees reality).
Granted, the cost of your "attack" goes up, but the "defender" (the non-criminal society) will spent a lot more to track you. Doesn't seem like a good security solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0