Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Ich habe vorgestern endlich den heißersehnten key zur ph-neutral erhalten. Ich bin drin!

Das heißt jetzt ein paar Tage extremes abnerden, hacken und Partys feiern auf dem Hackerkongress überhaupt! Ich freu mich schon auf die ganzen Leute, die kommen werden und auf die nerdige Stimmung.

Today I did what I was planning on for a couple of years now.
I finally went through with my secession from the roman-catholic church.
All I had to do was cough up 15 EUR at the registry office to get the official paperwork done.

Being agnostic and having a strong dislike of the church as an institution it was time to leave before they can start leeching on my income.
Yes, here in Germany the church (for roman-catholics and protestants) takes 8 to 9% of your income.
Conveniently deducted right off your paycheck.

Hell no!

Coincidently I found the approval mail from CCC in my inbox on the same day!
Not that it’s much of a substitution, but the best improvement possible at the time :D

In contrary to GI and BITKOM, CCC does something and gets noted for it.
Looks like they are the only IT “lobby” (yuck, I hate that word) that’s really making a difference.

Definitely 100000x better to support them rather than spending money on any church out there.

Now, not only is possession of Hacker-Tools illegal in Germany, no, now you’re getting in big, big trouble if you’re a social person, sharing your wireless internet connection.

In Germany you’re responsible for…

• ... what people post on your forum or blog
• ... the content of external websites you link to (even tho they are not your websites)
• ... every crime committed using your free wifi hotspot

That’s what a certain law says, that was already used SEVERAL times to SUCCESSFULLY convict people.

The law in question defines the term “interferer accountability” .
Meaning: If THEY think you’re offering something, knowingly, willingly, so others can misuse it.. YOU are responsible!
You can’t even claim “you didn’t know”. You’re supposed to read up on whatever possibilities to break a law you might be offering.

If you’re running a free, open, wireless hotspot in Germany and someone (mis)uses your internet connection for, say, piracy, you’re responsible.
At least that’s what the court of appeal in Frankfurt/Main ruled just a few days ago.

This ruling had me take down two Fon social wireless access points here in the house.
They [Fon] allowed unauthenticated users to get a couple of free minutes on any Fon access point without authentication. This was part of a promotional stunt but put every Fonero in Germany at risk to get sued for what those people did!

No more free wireless from my place!
Blame the German law, and the court in Frankfurt!

Source: Law-Blog: OLG Frankfurt zu unverschlüsseltem WLAN und Störerhaftung

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.