Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by cyberpunk on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:11PM
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Dual use tools are not exempt. If it can be used for nefarious haxxoring then you’re out of luck. Let alone having something like msf on your box…
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Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by jimktrains2 on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:36PM
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Everything can be dual use for "haxxoring".
Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by wizzwizz4 on Friday December 03, 2021 @07:50PM
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Cyber laws are not known for being reasonable.
Though, this particular interpretation does make Google Chrome illegal; it has dev tools that can be used for manually sending HTTPS POST requests with forged headers. (It also has XMLHttpRequest, which can be instructed to do what nmap does with relative ease.)