Hacking Tools to be Illegal in Germany

[Shinobi]

Re: Hacking Tools to be Illegal in Germany

Germany declares hacking tools 'verboten'



So what happens to now to the CCC and Hackers On A Plane? Will everyone be stripped of their copies of BackTrack 2 by German Customs?

The same thing is happening here in the UK. Soon it will be illegal to host, distribute or have any tool that could be linked to any form of hacking.

I geuss that means my web browser will be made illegal too then!

Typical polititions, making up guff laws without any insight. Rant over...

[Thorn]

Germany declares hacking tools 'verboten'

Under these provision it becomes an offense to create, use or distribute so-called "hacking tools". Critics point out that many of these tools are used by system administrators and security consultants quite legitimately to probe for vulnerabilities in corporate systems.

The distinctions between, for example, a password cracker and a password recovery tool, or a utility designed to run denial of service attacks and one designed to stress-test a network, are not properly covered in the legislation, critics argue. Taken as read, the law might even even make use of data recovery software to bypass file access permissions and gain access to deleted data potentially illegal.

So what happens to now to the CCC and Hackers On A Plane? Will everyone be stripped of their copies of BackTrack 2 by German Customs?