I'm sorry to say New Zealand is not unique. It's already law in Australia.
In 1999, Australia's Parliament passed amendments to the legislation governing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), giving them the right to use what was charmingly called "remote access"; in other words, to crack anyone's computer.
The legislation is known as the "Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment Bill 1999" and you can download your own copy from
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/cgi-bin/download.pl?/s cale/data/comact/10/6073/
Since VB 5, you have the option of native code or P-code. The VB runtime DLL, MSVBVMxx.DLL, contains hundreds of library functions, as well as the interpreter for the P-code. Native executables require the library functions, but that does not mean they run on a virtual machine.
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I'm sorry to say New Zealand is not unique. It's already law in Australia. In 1999, Australia's Parliament passed amendments to the legislation governing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), giving them the right to use what was charmingly called "remote access"; in other words, to crack anyone's computer. The legislation is known as the "Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment Bill 1999" and you can download your own copy from http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/cgi-bin/download.pl?/s cale/data/comact/10/6073/
Horse feathers.
Since VB 5, you have the option of native code or P-code. The VB runtime DLL, MSVBVMxx.DLL, contains hundreds of library functions, as well as the interpreter for the P-code. Native executables require the library functions, but that does not mean they run on a virtual machine.