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UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools'
twitter writes "New guidance rules for the UK's controversial Computer Misuse Act do not allay fears of impracticality, or of the banning of legitimate IT software: 'The government has come through with guidelines that address some, but not all, of these concerns about dual-use tools. The guidelines establish that to successfully prosecute the author of a tool it needs to be shown that they intended it to be used to commit computer crime. But the Home Office, despite lobbying, refused to withdraw the distribution offense. This leaves the door open to prosecute people who distribute a tool, such as nmap, that's subsequently abused by hackers.'" Somewhat similar legislation recently became law in Germany.
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goatse for freedom!!
I am a fish, I am not a hacker.
Suck it long and suck it hard.
...and find solace in Europe, where reasonable government and personal liberty reign supreme! ...wait, what?
There is a reason the UK is on an island. They don't really want to be a part of Europe, and Europe reciprocates the sentiment.
Please understand that things like this are inevitable when the government is tasked to act in the name of the Greater Common Good. Given all the pervious acts of socialists, hacking tool bans should be the least of your worries. In the past, Jews, Genetics and Cybernetics, Hate Speech, Overtime pay, Tobacco and Abortions all were deemed harmful.
What's next? Ban on monogamy, people with high IQ, witty remarks, hard work and study, Christianity, charity and honesty.
God I miss the good old times when our Government was given a set of very limited rights, and explicitly forbidden to fuck with anything except the foreign countries or the interstate commerce.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
better get rid of the internet altogether yup, in time thats what they want,
you to buy a HD TV and a HD converter that plugs into the govt regulated BREIN/MPAA/RIAA controled network to sell you each tv show each time you watch it. 5 people will be able to afford it and the rest of us can get bent.
Damn cheats are hacks of sorts as they allow unauthorized unintended use of software games.
Yup i gets a year in jail for cheating at my game cause the level was too hard.
sweet better take out cheat codes NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
also any mods to software like extensions and themes are hacks for firefox
wow
patches by MS are in effect hacks to modify there own program
wow
whats left
Commodore 64 BASIC
65535 bytes free
READY
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