EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools"

Re:EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" by adsr on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:13AM (#3816379)

What is considered a hacking tool? Does it only affect highly automated, single purpose tools which can not be used in any legitimate way, or does it affect things like hexdump or nc?

Also, who makes the distinction? Is it eveluated on a case by case basis by the court or is there a list of "verboten" tools?

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Re:EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" by guard-of-terra on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:42AM (#3816419)

Let me guess, it is evaluated on per case basis and then it gets into the list. Some stupid court in the middle of nowhere outlaws tcpdump and then every linux user is a criminat.

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Re:EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" by m0skit0 on Monday April 09, 2012 @06:52AM (#3816447)

They don't even know because most of this "clever" politicians have absolutely no idea what "hacking" actually means, let alone a "hacking tool"...

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Re:EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" by pyrhho on Monday April 09, 2012 @07:01AM (#3816461)

Also, would this include just guessing passwords? As that seems to have fallen into the common definition of 'hacking'...

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