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

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Message-ID: <fd5970e00709260832p23dfe73ey31f1fbe4efb87689@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:32:45 +0200
From: "minor float" <minor.float@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 
	n.runs AG puts §202 law to the test - Tools back online

Hope, more companies and groups will follow your example and show to
your government how stupid law they made.
m.f

On 26/09/2007, Thierry Zoller <Thierry.Zoller@...ns.com> wrote:
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> 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
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>
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> n.runs AG
> Registergericht Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, HRB 10399
> Nassauer Straße 60
> 61440 Oberursel
> mobil +49 151 5500 2771
> phone +49 6171 699-0
> fax   +49 6171 699-199
> web   http://www.nruns.com
>
> Aufsichtsrat: Vorstand:
> Horst Marscholek (Vorsitzender) Andreas Bruns (Vorsitzender)
> Ulrich Caspar  Alexander Kersting  Donald Lee
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