Re: [Full-disclosure] n.runs AG puts §202 law to the test - Tools back online

[gjgowey () tmo blackberry net]

I can picture piles of cd's and hard drives being burned now.

Geoff

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From: <full-disclosure () hushmail com>

Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:29:52 
To:<full-disclosure () lists grok org uk>,<thierry.zoller () nruns com>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure]
        n.runs AG puts §202 law to the
         test - Tools back online


Finally the Whitehat Holocaust begins!

Germany is great.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:52:21 -0400 Thierry Zoller 
<Thierry.Zoller () nruns com> wrote:
> Dear List,
> You may or may not have noticed but a lot of German companies and
> researches have pulled their tools from their website in fear of 
> litigation.
>
> We are fed up with the ambiguity and confusion surrounding Germany
> controversial new anti-hacker law and n.runs AG decided to put the 
> law
> to the test, we reuploaded the BTCrack (Bluetooth Cracking tool) 
> and
> futhermore added a new Item, the source code to the Linux port for
> immediate download. [1]
>
> The law, which took effect Aug. 10, mandates fines or prison 
> sentences
> for any person who violates 202a or 202b "by providing access to,
> selling, acquiring, leaving at the disposition of someone, 
> distributing
> or otherwise making accessible" passwords or access control 
> information.
> It also outlaws computer programs whose purpose is solely 
> criminal.
>
> N.runs hopes its actions will encourage other German security 
> firms and
> researchers to put their security tools and research back online 
> as
> well. "The current confusion and uncertainty is affecting everyone
> around here," Jan Münther (CTO) says.
>
> "Germany is most certainly not becoming a safer place because of 
> these
> laws."
>
>
> More Information about the motivation behind this move and more 
> insight
> is available through Dark Reading :
> http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=134646&WT.svl=news1_
> 2
>
> [1] http://www.nruns.com/_en/security_tools.php
> PS. The link know really points to a file...
>
>
> Regards,
> Thierry Zoller - Security Engineer
> Fingerprint 9180 F9C9 A0EF BDA3 C46A BFEB B149 0FE4 3AFC 9B09
>
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