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Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal
dubbelj writes "Germany has updated their computer crime law to declare 'hacking tools' illegal. This will place most of the professionals in the network admin and computer security fields in a sort of legal grey area. 'The new rules tighten up the existing sanctions and prohibit any unauthorized user from disabling or circumventing computer security measures to access secure data (see the law, sections 200 and following [in German]). Manufacturing, programming, installing, or spreading software that can circumvent security measures is verboten, which means that some security scanning tools might become illegal.' We discussed a similar measure in January when Australia considered the same kind of legislation. How will this affect Linux distribution in Germany, as most standard Linux distributions come with these kind of 'hacking tools' installed by default?"
Great! Well, problem solved. We can all stop patching our servers and running firewalls now! Yippee!! :D
If "hacking tools" are outlawed, only outlaws will have "hacking tools."
The rulebook of my high school explicitly forbid bringing to school "anything that can be used as a weapon." I brought up the point that this would effectively expel all small freshmen who could be picked up and thrown at other people.
Just make sure the evil bit is unset on your "hacking tools", and they'll be hunky-dory.
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make install -not war
I've got eyes which I could use to look at someone typing a password. I hope I'll not be forced to disable them! :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Yeah, Heidi is such a slut.
Good riddance to 'em. They always make me leave my 'droids outside.
that they outlawed Sony CDs there........