[Gllug] Uh oh, govt attempting to regulate "hacking"

[Richard Jones]

While I think that we desperately need measures to imprison spammers,
bot-net owners, phishers, online fraudsters and so on, I don't have
much confidence in the tech ignoramuses in our government to legislate
usefully.  Well, they're up to it anyway:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4781608.stm

Here are the relevant clauses:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/119/06119.27-33.html#j381

Clause 35 appears to make distribution of hacking tools illegal (nmap,
anyone?)

Rich.

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