Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity

May 31st, 2007

“Germany has updated their computer crime law to declare ‘hacking tools’ illegal. 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. Manufacturing, programming, installing, or spreading software that can circumvent security measures is verboten, which means that some security scanning tools might become illegal…’” (Read full article here)

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