On May 31, 07 23:30:06 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:20:15AM +1200, Jim Pye wrote:
From an announcement of Arstechnica at http://tinyurl.com/2yjqoq
Does this mean OpenSUSE, SLES etc. - which I understand has a lot of engineering force in Germany - will have to drop products like Wireshark?
Wireshark is not really a intrusion helper tool.
Aircrack-NG would be more of one.
Aircrack! Right. I shall throw aircrack into the discussion with legal. Could anybody think of a 'legal' use of aircrack?
And the law is _not_ final, it has to be ratified by the "Bundesrat" first, which the latter might not do.
Right. It is still time to unroll some transparents and march towards Berlin! :-)
Our legal guys are looking at it and we will see what happens.
Our current working hypothesis is, that this law only makes sense, if we assume its wording is sloppy. It makes sense if it actually meant to adress those tools whose *only* use is an illegal use.
So far we adopt a "wait and see" attitude.
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