[pp.int.general] "Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal" Slashdot

[Findeton]

I just jumped into slashdot and i found
this<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259>
:
Germany Declares Hacking Tools
Illegal<http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259>
*"Germany has updated their computer crime law to declare 'hacking tools'
illegal<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070528-germany-adopts-anti-hacker-law-critics-say-it-breeds-insecurity.html>.
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<http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/07/0132226&tid=95>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?"
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