Now they've done it! Just OWNING "hacker tools" illegal in Germany
Update
For our German speaking readers, please watch this video .
Those are the folks who are part of the ones banning “hacker tools”.
It’s so ridiculous.. neither do they really use the internet, nor do they know what a “browser” is.
BUT, they have their own homepage which they are (admittedly) too stupid to use on their own.
German news: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/92334/from/atom10
Statement from German hacker group Phenoelit: http://www.phenoelit.de/202/202.html
In short:
If you own any hacker tool which “aim is to commit a crime”...
- nmap
- metasploit
- any penetration testing tool in general
- port scanners
- network analyzers? (hopefully not those too)
... you’re signing up for one year in jail or a hefty fine.
That reads OWNING, not using, it’s just OWNING.
Furthermore, if you make public any passwords or codes that allow access to data (read “default password list”, or strictly speaking even: “if you start your linksys router for the first time, log in using USER:PASS”) you’re screwed.
I’ve been using computers since the 80’s.
I’ve been studying computer science / computer engineering for four years now.
Not even did you (yes, you, German government) ignore the “education should be free for everyone” rule in the constitution (like all those other constitutional rules you’ve been violating so willingly lately).
No, now you’re taking away my (100% legally OK, until today that is) future work, just at the time I was about to finish my studies after paying over 500 cold hard euros, per semester, out of my own pocket, to actually be able to finish at all.
I’m done with all of this bullshit, as soon as possible I’m out of here.
No thanks for being so nice to all of us.
And yet you keep crying about how IT specialists are so rare right now and all those companies who’re leaving Germany for some other country because it just plain sucks here.
It’s time to make use of the German constitution, use as in “Article 20 (4)”.
RESISTS, as the constitution demands of every Germany citizen.
DISOBEY the unconstitutional fascists in power right now.