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Achtung! New German Laws on Cybercrime
Federico Biancuzzi, 2007-07-10

Germany is passing some new laws regarding cybercrime that might affect security professionals. Federico Biancuzzi interviewed Marco Gercke, one of the experts that was invited to the parliamentary hearing, to learn more about this delicate subject. They discussed what is covered by the new laws, which areas remain in the dark, and how they might affect vulnerability disclosure and the use of common tools, such as nmap.

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effects being felt already 2007-08-01
dragonfrog
Already we're suffering the effects of this ill-advised law. To wit:

- phenoelit.de has closed down. They've been an excellent source of research and security resources. That's the end of that.

- kismac.de is about to close down. The best wireless sniffer for Mac OS X is about to lose its home (practically - the only good one).

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