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

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:29:52 -0400
From: <full-disclosure@...hmail.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,<thierry.zoller@...ns.com>
Subject: Re: 
	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@...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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>Nassauer Straße 60
>61440 Oberursel
>mobil +49 151 5500 2771
>phone +49 6171 699-0
>fax   +49 6171 699-199
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>
>Aufsichtsrat: Vorstand:
>Horst Marscholek (Vorsitzender) Andreas Bruns (Vorsitzender)
>Ulrich Caspar  Alexander Kersting  Donald Lee

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