Thursday, 31. May 2007
Topic: COMPUTER - on May 31, 2007 at 10:50:00 AM CEST
Germany declares hacking tools 'verboten'
Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called "hacking tools" have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.
The revamp to the German criminal code is designed to tighten definitions, making denial of service attacks and attempts to sniff data on third-party wireless networks, for example, clearly criminal. Attacks would be punishable by a fine and up to 10 years imprisonment.
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