On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:20, 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?
The topic of this law (not yet in force, if I understood what was written on the openSUSE list) came up in the last couple of days. Wireshark is a passive analyzer / sniffer, right? If so, then I wouldn't think it would come under the provisions of this law. However, other code included in any comprehensive Linux distribution presumably would. Even if Wireshark can synthesize and transmit packets, it doesn't really generate the kind of traffic that could constitute a probe of a host's vulnerabilities? Or does it? I've only used it a little and in fairly simple ways. Anyway, see the openSUSE list topic "opensuse repositories now illegal in Germany" which began on 2007-05-28 at 1:24 PDT (GMT - 7).
Jim
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