> does that impinge on free-speech? It could be argued that free speech necessarily has limitations. Depending on where you are in the world, this involves ha

> does that impinge on free-speech? It could be argued that free speech necessarily has limitations. Depending on where you are in the world, this involves hate speech and incitation to violence. I would readily agree that distributing (especially SELLING) tools with the expressly stated purpose of criminal use should be punishable. That being said, the same tools are likely useful for legitimate purposes. Heck, I could see an argument for Back Orifice being useful in that one would really like to be assured that their network's egress filtering would raise flags when BO traffic is on the wire. This brings up another important point--these tools are always useful for people who are writing protection and mitigation against the tools' methods.