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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:35:55 +0300
From: Toni Korpela <admin@...fork.com>
To: admin@...fork.com
Cc: Full Disclosure Mailing List <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] Legality of Open Source Tools

Sorry.

For the last message and that I forgot to include where
the chapter 34 sections 9a and 9b can be found..

They are on the following translated document of the
Finnish Criminal Code:

http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf

You can find sections 9a and 9b on pages 143 and 144.

-Toni

On 04/05/2014 01:23 PM, Toni Korpela wrote:
> Greetings from Finland.
>
> I know that here it is illegal to import, manufacture, sell
> or otherwise distribute such machine or software which
> are designed to endanger or harm information and
> communication systems.
>
> This is stated in chapter 34 § 9a. Then again § 9b states
> that it is illegal to posess machine, software and access
> information into systems which you can use to endanger
> or harm information and communication
> systems.
>
> Basically this means that I am not allowed to have ping,
> nmap or other networking / penetration testing tools
> which can be used for harm installed on my computer.
> Though I am not certain if any of these computer
> security laws have been used to penalize someone.
>
> I am not certain if penetration testing tools belong to
> the category of tools which are designed to endanger
> or harm information and communication systems.
>
> It's quite harsh if I could get fines or maximum of 2 years jail
> for having Linux distribution with some networking tools
> installed on my computer.
>
> -Toni

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