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Are full details of the "draft law" visible to the public? From the article: The proposal also targets tools used to commit offences: the production o
by dave1010uk 15y ago
Are full details of the "draft law" visible to the public?
From the article:
The proposal also targets tools used to commit
offences: the production or sale of devices such as
computer programs designed for cyber-attacks, or which
find a computer password by which an information system
can be accessed, would constitute criminal offences.
Many tools can be used to "find a computer password by which an information system can be accessed". For example a browser's view source function could expose passwords in a (really insecure) site.
Depending on how the law is worded, tools like curl, wget (or even telnet) could be defined as hacking tools.
- tomjen3 15y agoPlus it is going to be illegal to produce them. What are you going to do? Remove my C compiler? Only allow visual basic?
- hereonbusiness 15y agoI'm afraid VB will be the first one to go. It's gotten too much attention because of people using it to create GUI interfaces to track IP addresses :D
- tomjen3 15y ago(I realise that you are joking) Won't matter. As long as one language exist, one can write a compiler for any other language in that language. Hopefully something other than Maelbolge will be the surviving language.