Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little

Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little
Mark Rasch, 2009-06-05

On August 10, 2007, a new section of the German Penal code went into effect. The statute, intended to implement certain provisions of the Council of Europe Treaty on Cybercrime, could be interpreted to make the creation or distribution of computer security software a criminal offense.

Colapse all | Post comment

Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-08
Anonymous (2 replies)

Can there be a column about something technical? Maybe also how about a new Infocus article? This site is losing relevance with each passing year....

[ more ] [ reply ]

Re: Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-10
Anonymous (1 replies)

Actually, Mark Rasch's column is the one of the few reasons I still read this site. There's technical information all over the place, but very little about the legal aspects of security....

[ more ] [ reply ]

Re: Re: Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-12
Anonymous

Agreed. There are very very few resources for the legal aspects of information security. This is one of the few columns of any kind that I read with regularity....

[ more ] [ reply ]

Re: Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-25
Anonymous

Very good column.

Ever time Mark writes an article you're the first poster, and you always request something technical.

You should learn what words mean before you use them in a sentence. Here check this out:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/technical...

[ more ] [ reply ]

Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-19
James (1 replies)

hacker tool law is nonsense.

While I understand the desire for it. It seems the past Darwinist trend of the internet is ever fading due to an outcry of beginners who get compromised. Essentially you see people running Joomla sites, or Wordpress getting compromised, then throwing their arms in th...

[ more ] [ reply ]

Re: Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little 2009-06-26
sparc86

You're absolutely right!

If all sysadmins did it like you do, script kiddies would find "higher walls".

...

[ more ] [ reply ]