Gregory's Server@WPalant I remember when they introduced the "hackerparagraph" and it basically criminalized "owning hacker tools" like nmap or Wireshark. Is that still the way it is? I haven't paid attention to that special palace of German lawmaking incompetence in a while.
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@WPalant Yeah okay, that's *not* really better, because it mostly covers "professional use". While I am an IT consultant, I am *not* a security consultant so professional use probably'd never apply. The part about malicious intent is also something I'd decidedly not like to test in court, because it's way too easy to assume and way too hard to disprove. But it's great to see Karlsruhe involved in this. Once or twice more and we might even get reasonable hacking laws. 🙈 |
@hamato No, there is a high court decision clarifying that dual use tools are exempt from that rule.
Source: https://www.golem.de/0906/67887.html