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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
Achtung! New German Laws on Cybercrime 2007-08-16
Anonymous
Paragraph 202c Penal Code does not limit the criminalisation to tools that are primarily designed to commit certain computer crimes.


By this rationale anyone under the jurisdiction of this new law could be in violation simply by having a web browser on their machine.

Welcome to the brave new world...

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