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

[Paul Cupis]

Richard Jones wrote:
> 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?)

LINX were saying at their last meeting that they were working with the
government to remove the stupid parts of the leglislation, they seemed
to be fairly confident that the final version will be half reasonable.
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