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| Very controversial law adopted on Monday the German Bundestag deputies. Following the path of gradual tightening of articles of the Criminal Code against cyber-crime, legislators have made yet what feared among the experts on information security - a serious went too far in imposing bans and almost completely erased the line between "white" and "dark" parties to the computer underground. It is quite reasonable position on the illegality and criminal liability of any action to circumvent protection of information by unauthorized persons is complemented by the new rules confusing ban on development, reproduction, distribution, installation and use of any software that can be used for these actions. That is now in Germany can not test durability of the security without the risk of thunder in jail. Law, according to specialists, it is as foolish as the law against the acquisition and use, such as forks. They also can cause serious harm to humans (and at a certain skill - and a few people), but because no one has not yet occurred to equate them to the cold arms with all its consequences. In addition to software fall under the ban and the organization of botnets and DoS-attacks, regardless of whether it is carried out with malicious intent or just for research purposes. Because of this, virtually all the independent work on improving the protective mechanisms against this plague of the Internet would be at best a "gray" and their authors will inevitably fall under the strict control of the "bodies". The Law was adopted in anticipation of a broad discussion of European policy to combat electronic crime. The need for a common European legislation in this area has long been advocated by the Ministries of Justice in many countries of the Union with the active support of the U.S.. However, until recently, all large-scale initiative in this direction wrapped under the pressure of public opinion, worried too big powers, which always demanded for itself by appropriate intelligence agencies. But as the fate of these projects are now against the background of the heated (and heated) hysteria over the recent massive cyber-attacks on Estonia, now no one will undertake to predict one. | |
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