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These sorts of laws need to include exceptions for tools that have a non-criminal purpose. Otherwise, a broad reading could include things like NetCat, Curl, an

by jvanenk 15y ago

These sorts of laws need to include exceptions for tools that have a non-criminal purpose. Otherwise, a broad reading could include things like NetCat, Curl, and Apache Bench.

skymt 15y ago
Which would render the whole shebang useless. All tools used for breaking into computers have legitimate uses for security professionals, not the least of which is penetration testing.
- younata 15y ago
  "I wasn't trying to hack you, I was giving you guys a free impromptu penetration test!"