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

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:14 +0000, 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?)


Not to me. It seems to make it illegal to put nmap on your website and
say "use this to crack someone's security".

I think there are some flaws in the Computer Misuse Act but I think this
provision - which makes the distribution of rootkits illegal - is not
one of them

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