I just jumped into slashdot and i found <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259">this</a>:<br><h3><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1629259">Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal
</a></h3><i>"Germany has updated their computer crime law to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070528-germany-adopts-anti-hacker-law-critics-say-it-breeds-insecurity.html">declare 'hacking tools' illegal
</a>.
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 href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/07/0132226&tid=95">a similar measure</a>
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?"</i><br>