6 ms·
No: > The new Belgian whistleblower law only applies in Belgium. If a cybersecurity vulnerability concerns an IT system outside of Belgium, hacking might be co
by janosdebugs 3y ago
No:
> The new Belgian whistleblower law only applies in Belgium. If a cybersecurity vulnerability concerns an IT system outside of Belgium, hacking might be covered by the rules of the country where the system is located.
- bmacho 3y agoThat part is obvious, if you commit a crime somewhere else, then you commit it somewhere else. The question is whether Belgium protects you as their citizen, or doesn't.
- sgjohnson 3y agoTypically extradition requires dual criminality. i.e. you can’t be extradited for something that is a crime in a foreign country but isn’t in yours.
- nomercy400 3y agoAny cloud datacenters in Belgium?
- andruby 3y agoGoogle has a large datacenter there. (europe-west1)
- IMTDb 3y agoeu-west-1 is in Ireland. There are no currently open availability zone in Belgium. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...
- andruby 3y agoThat’s AWS you’re linking to. Google cloud europe-west1 is in St Ghislain, Belgium. https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/
- yvdriess 3y agoInteresting to point out that Euroclear and Euronext are based in Belgium.
- fvdessen 3y agoalso SWIFT, the NATO HQ, the SHAPE, and most EU institutions
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- kuroguro 3y agoSo if a Belgian hacker is researching a Belgian company and a single server happens to be outside of Belgium territory, they're suddenly breaking the law?
- andruby 3y agoWell, unfortunately, yes. Belgium can’t give you a license to commit a crime in another country.
- kachnuv_ocasek 3y agoWhy not? The US does this regularly.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- hutzlibu 3y agoSo do other intelligence services, but that doesn't mean regular citizens are allowed to so this as well. (and whether secret services are "allowed" to do so, is a seperate question)
- sureglymop 3y agoSurely the law here should be pedantic here, no? Does the location where a server is physically located or the location where a company is registered count?
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoOr what if a company buys a set of previously-used-in-Belgium IP addresses and now uses them in France? Something like this happened on the cloud when they were running low on IPv4 addresses.
- sgjohnson 3y ago