Don't think serial numbers will be of much use in this area.

They're valuable in tracing guns and cars because the sale of both those items is pretty heavily controlled, and so there's an actual record of what happened to, say, item number 2398623. But toys aren't tracked at all, and are unlikely to start getting tracked any time soon (unless the folks in the FBI /really/ have too much time on their hands), and that means that even if you discover the drone had motor number 9868096754 in it, that still won't enable you to tell who had it previously, nor what path it followed before it exploded during the President's speech on the White House lawn.

On 07/08/2016 06:18 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:10 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net <mailto:a.ashfi...@verizon.net>> wrote:

    What parts?  small electric motors and batteries?  RC is a do it
    yourself operation now, or just take parts from toys.


Good question. Not sure. Perhaps serial numbers on the types of RC parts that go into toys. Clearly having traceable serial numbers will only be useful in finding the perpetrators if the drone goes down and is recovered.

It's an interesting thought experiment -- what will governments do in a pinch if the number of assassinations goes up?

Eric

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