[revelation]

Quite the opposite, frankly.

Germany has had such laws for quite some time now - and companies producing intrusion tools and other blackhat industries are doing as good as in any western country.

This is used to criminalize people releasing such tools to the public. The government doesn't like people sharing what it considers military technology.

[drucken]

It does not matter how it is used now. The point is that it could be easily used by any state at any time for any purpose against any citizen.

For example, someone carrying a laptop with any software installed on it, including bare operating system, or even just a portable drive/SD card with software on it. All those citizens are now potential criminals since almost any software can be used maliciously.

This is the kind of law that could be used to justify scanning people's hardware and person at airports or in general public in order to arrest them. Now combine this law with ACTA and you have a reason to arrest any citizen coming and going out of their own country if they have any kind of electronics on them at all...

Bad laws are bad laws, period, otherwise would all have happily lived under Stasi/secret police regimes and worse with no reason to complain.

[freehunter]

If you have a web browser, you have a hacking tool. SQL injections are far, far too common, and most of the time require nothing more than an input box on a website.