, 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.
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Hacker-Tool Law Still Does Little
2009-06-08
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
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 the air angry about it.
If you get compromised, you are doing something wrong. I have had a server on the net, running apache and several sites for over 4 years, and [knock on wood] have never been compromised. Why? Because I am an active administrator. I patch regularly. I keep up with bugtraq, milw0rm, packetstorm, etc. I also use JTR on my own password file to show me which users need to be yelled at.
Granted, an internet without script kiddies would be great, but putting legal blame on the creators is stupid. If you kill someone with a gun, is it the manufacturers fault or yours?
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