Criminalisation of security tools

[jerome.athias at free.fr (Jerome Athias)]

0x90 at hushmail.com a ?crit :
> Framework 3.0 release is all over the news. I came across 
> http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/87442 and what I found 
> interesting is the last paragraph that states:
>
> "However, recent amendments to information security legislation, 
> which include the criminalisation of the manufacture, provision, 
> distribution or procurement of hacker tools will make the use of 
> tools such as Metasploit problematic. It could even become unlawful 
> to perform internal tests to check the security of your system or 
> to check whether vendor patches really fix vulnerabilities as 
> promised."
>
> Going back to typical "Security through obscurity" approach? 
> Anyway, I never heard about such legislation. If true, which 
> state(s) will adopt it? Anyone has more info?
>   
For UK, i don't know. But in France and Deutschland it is the case. :-(
> Cheers,
> /0x90
>
> PS: HD Moore, thank you very much for such a great tool.
>   
True! :-) Thanks to all the Metasploit Team and community

/JA