full-disclosure - Re: n.runs AG puts §202 law to the test

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:44:13 -0700
From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: "full-disclosure@...hmail.com" <full-disclosure@...hmail.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, thierry.zoller@...ns.com
Subject: Re: 
	n.runs AG puts §202 law to the test - Tools back online

Why isn't there a lobby against this!

On 9/26/07, full-disclosure@...hmail.com <full-disclosure@...hmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Finally the Whitehat Holocaust begins!
>
> Germany is great.
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:52:21 -0400 Thierry Zoller
> <Thierry.Zoller@...ns.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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> >phone +49 6171 699-0
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> >web   http://www.nruns.com
> >
> >Aufsichtsrat: Vorstand:
> >Horst Marscholek (Vorsitzender) Andreas Bruns (Vorsitzender)
> >Ulrich Caspar  Alexander Kersting  Donald Lee
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