UK gov clarifies hacker tool ban

[BOFH]

Looks like the UK is going down the same way Germany has but worse.....


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/02/hacker_toll_ban_guidance/



What is at issue is so-called hacking tools, and the problem arises because almost every hacking tool you can think of from perl to nmap is dual use — the good guys use it for good purposes, and the bad guys use it for bad. The bad guys are of course committing an offence, and the good guys are not … but the complexity surrounds “distribution”, if a good guy runs a website and a lot of bad people download the tool from it, has the good guy committed an offence?



http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/12/31/hacking-tool-guidance-finally-appears/


This would make the N8x0 illegal in the UK ?!?!?!

[Texrat]

In this case of course actions are what should be defined as legal or illegal, given the understanding that tools involved can be used one way or the other. In that respect this law may well overreach.

But I didn't see anything in either article that would lead me to assume the internet tablets would be ipso facto illegal under this statute. :confused:

[munky261]

if that was the case , laptops would be banned as well

[BOFH]

if that was the case , laptops would be banned as well

Technical it would make transistors banned as well, which would send the UK into the Dark Ages.....